NGC 6334

NGC 6334 (CTB 39, GUM 62, RCW 187, Minkowski 1-86, the Cat's Paw Nebula and others) is HII region at the bottom left. This one is located approximately 3,700 light-years away in Scorpius. This as the rest of the nebulosity is collectively designated as Sharpless 8.

Luminance – 10x600s – 100 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 9:11:10x600s – 90:110:100 minutes each – binned 1x1

400 minutes total exposure – 6 hours 40 minutes

Imaged over seven nights in April and July, 2021 and April and May, 2022 at the El Sauce Observatory (Rio Hurtado, Chile) with a FLI PL 9000 on a PlaneWave CDK24 at f/6.5 3974 mm.

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/54273935396/sizes/l/

This data is from Telescope Live (https://telescope.live/) “One-click Observations.”