Observation by Grant Privett: NGC6543 Outer

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Grant Privett

Observer

Grant Privett

Observed

2023 Oct 08 - 22:00

Uploaded

2023 Oct 12 - 23:43

Objects

The Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC6543)

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Constellation

Draco

Field centre

RA: 17^h58^m
Dec: +66°38'
Position angle: +10°21'

Field size

0°21' × 0°13'

Equipment

300mm VX12 f/4 Newtonian
Starlight Trius 694 mono CCD
SW EQ6 with Rowan belts

Exposure

200 x30s unfiltered

Location

Near Salisbury

Target name

NGC6543

Title

NGC6543 Outer

About this image

I had not intended to image NGC6543 but after an evening fighting Windows 11 I decided to image a known commodity - having at last got the system running again. A week or two back the Minipc running my telescope died after a Windows update, taking the SSD with it - totally scromped FATs - and 70GB lost, after I found out my backups were failing. Oops.

Anyway. I first imaged a tiny area of this in about 1996 with an 8" _ homemade camera and was just pleased to detect the outer regions. I revisited in about 2006 using a 10" and a Starlight MX7 and got a lot more detail. This is better again and shows the improved kit makes all the difference...

Ideally, I would have had a couple of hours more, but its an acceptable result - just not a patch on those from Gurney, Tickner and Goodhew, which are really nice.

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