HAS Site, March 2008
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Scroll down to see the moon pictures, as well as M83, the Sombrero, M81/M82, and more from March 7/8, 2008.

Cat's Paw Nebula: NGC 6634 (NGC6634)

This pictures shows NGC 6334, the Cat's Paw nebula in southern Scorpius.  This was the last shot of the night as it rose in the SE around 4:00 a.m.  9x4=36min exposure March 9, 2008.  All astronomy images:  Canon EOS 20Da (unmodified), Takahashi TOA 130 (a 5" APO refractor) with the TAK flattener, guided with  SBIG STV, Astro-Physics AP 900GTO mount.    My current image processing workflow is here.

http://www.astrosurf.com/antilhue/ngc_6334.htm and http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap991207.html and a picture with a huge professional scope http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080304.html

See the other pictures from these nights below.

Leo Trio	M83	Sombrero Galaxy, M104
M81-M82	M68 and Clusters	Older: Moon and Planets
Older: Images of other objects in Scorpius	Older: NGC 6231	HAS Site pix indexed here

Moon Sets into the Trees, 3/8/2008 HAS Site

Same night, expose to show detail on the illuminated section.

"The Sky" says this is 2.4% illuminated, somewhere near 30 hours old.

All astronomy images:  Canon EOS 20Da (unmodified), Takahashi TOA 130 (a 5" APO refractor) with the TAK flattener, guided with  SBIG STV, Astro-Physics AP 900GTO mount.    My current image processing workflow is here.