Wallpaper author:
Scotty Bishop
17 Mar 2024
Cat's Eye Nebula
This is the Cat's Eye Nebula using all of the data on it from SPA-2-CMOS and SPA-2-CCD (the CCD data for the core of it). This one was quite difficult to process out, but I was able to do it.
Dataset from which the image was processed
NGC 6543
4 credit
- Type of target............................................................................................................................Planetary Nebula
- Camera............................................................................................................................FLI PL16803
- Target coordinates............................................................................................................................RA 269.6392 Dec 66.633
- Hemisphere............................................................................................................................Northern
- Telescope location............................................................................................................................Spain
- Transient event............................................................................................................................No
- Observed on............................................................................................................................29 May 2020 - 12 Jun 2022
Filter | Avg Exp (s) | Total Exposure | Subframes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luminance | 30 | 8m | 16 |
| Red | 15 | 4m | 16 |
| Green | 15 | 4m | 16 |
| Blue | 16 | 4m | 15 |
| Halpha | 1520 | 6h20m | 15 |