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Cat's Paw Nebula

This is my attempt at the James Webb Space Telescope data of the Cat's Paw Nebula NGC 6334. Many stars were removed or oversaturated in the filter data downloaded from MAST, resulting in a lot of artifacts in the short- and long-wavelength composite images created with #Siril. I combined both images in #GIMP and tried to fix some of the artifacts. After different tries, also on the raw data, I decided to run #StarNet++ on the combined FITS file created with GIMP and then painstakingly clean the rest (felt like 10000) of the star artifacts up. I tried to stay true to the nebula by interpolating what the area behind and around the stars most likely looks like. GIMP's heal brush worked really well, but it took many hours to complete.

The full-resolution image can be seen on my website when choosing the original size in the upper right corner (warning: it is 77 MB in size): https://www.picturavis.com/picture?/391/categories

Telescope: JWST/NIRCam
Proposal ID: 6778
Observation description: NIRCam observations of a star forming nebula
Release date: 10.07.2025
Filters: F090W (blue), F187N (light blue), F200W (blue-green), F277W (yellow-green), F335M (yellow), F444W-F470N (red)

#CatsPawNebula #NGC6334 #JWST #JamesWebb #NIRCam #Nebula #SpaceTelescope #astrophotography #DeepSky #DigiKam

StellarSnap Jul 21, 2025

📸 Cat's Paw Nebula from JWST

This stunning nebula, also known as NGC 6334 or the Bear Claw, lies 5,700 light-years away in Scorpius. Captured in infrared by the James Webb Space Telescope, it reveals a turbulent stellar nursery where stars nearly 10 times the Sun’s mass are still forming.

📷 NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

#CatsPawNebula #NGC6334 #JWST #NASA #InfraredAstronomy #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #Space #Scorpius

AlcorNews Jul 12, 2025

Le JWST célèbre ses 3 ans avec cette vue spectaculaire de la nébuleuse de la Patte de Chat, révélant une pouponnière d’étoiles massives ✨
https://www.msn.com/fr-fr/actualite/technologie-et-sciences/une-fascinante-image-de-la-n%C3%A9buleuse-de-la-patte-de-chat/ar-AA1Ipl8a
#Space #Science #Innovation
#Astrophysics #Astronomy #StellarNursery
#CatsPawNebula #NGC6334 #JWSTImage
#JWST3YearsEmerging

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Kuuke's Sterrenbeelden Jul 12, 2025

Webb viert zijn 3e verjaardag met een opname van de Kattenpootnevel

Om het derde jaar van uiterst productieve wetenschap te vieren, gebruikten astronomen de NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb-ruimtetelescoop om een deel van de Kattenpootnevel in beeld te brengen.

Deze Webb-afbeelding toont de Kattenpootnevel

https://www.kuuke.nl/webb-viert-zijn-3e-verjaardag-met-een-opname-van-de-kattenpootnevel/

#Kattenpootnevel #NGC6334 #schorpioen #stervorming #stervormingsgebied #WebbSpaceTelescope

rdm May 14, 2025

Today we have a mosaic of two images, both taken the same night by two #Dwarf3 #SmartTelescopes from the roof of the studio at the back of our house, where we left them running all night, with the help of a pair of 10Ah USB-C powerpacks.

I targeted The Cat's Paw Nebula (NGC6334), while @leece targeted part of the nearby NGC6357. We both made sure to have the individual nebulae off-centre frame enough that we could get a slight overlap.

For both we have around 7 hours of exposure - 420ishx60s@80, both with the internal Ha/OIII filter.

We ran both images through the Dwarflab Stellar Studio to do a star removal, and recomposed both images with a star mask. Some final tuning in Snapseed, and then a manual combining of the two shots.

All up, about 2 hours actual effort, over three days.

#Astrophotography #Astrodon #NGC6334 #NGC6357 #MosaicImage #Nebula #Astronomy #Dwarflab #Snapseed