NGC 6543 (Cat's Eye Nebula)

NGC 6543 is a beautiful planetary nebula also known as the Cat's Eye Nebula, in the northern constellation Draco.

Image stacked in Siril, processed in PixInsight (DBE, BXT, NXT, GHS) and final adjustments in Affinity Photo 2.

Used also SASPro Halo-Be-Gon to reduce RGB star haloes and to process separately the subset of 120s exposures to highlight the nebula core

Dataset from which the image was processed

NGC 6543

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25 Jun 2026

NGC 6543 is a beautiful planetary nebula also known as the Cat's Eye Nebula, in the northern constellation Draco.

Image stacked in Siril, processed in PixInsight (DBE, BXT, NXT, GHS) and final adjustments in Affinity Photo 2.

Used also SASPro Halo-Be-Gon to reduce RGB star haloes and to process separately the subset of 120s exposures to highlight the nebula core

Dataset from which the image was processed

NGC 6543

8 credit