The Cat's Paw Nebula is an active star forming emission nebula, 5500 light years away. Astrofckup: this isn't much data as I grabbed it at the end of the night after imaging Horsehead and Flame, and it was a warm night so I had cooling issues, so the resulting image is noisy.

===== NGC 6634 18" (6/30/11): this is an unusual asterism of 4 brighter stars mag 8.4-9.2 forming a near isosceles trapezoid with a longer base of 4.4' and shorter base 1.5'. Three of the stars were easily resolved in my 80mm finder at 12.5x and all four at 25x.

2024年9月5日 · The astronomical object called NGC 6634 is a Object of Unknown Nature

R/B-band color composite image from the Second Digitized Sky Survey (DSS2), measuring 30 arcminutes across. Click and drag the chart above to pan around the sky, or use the mouse …

NGC 6634 je grupa zvijezda i nalazi se u sazviježđu Strijelac. Prvo otkriće je napravio Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille 1751. godine. [ 2 ][ 4 ][ 5 ]

The astronomical object called NGC 6634 is a Object of unknown nature

Note there's an improved "Cat's Paw" picture here: Southern Scorpius: Cat's Paw Nebula, NGC 6634. 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.

An astrophotograph by AstroFckups on AstroBin

2023年6月28日 · Physical Information: NGC 6634 consists of less than half a dozen stars ranging from 7th to 9th magnitude, and would have hardly seemed worth mentioning if its true nature had been more readily apparent to Lacaille.

At 5,500 light years distant, Cat’s Paw is an emission nebula with a red color that originates from an abundance of ionized hydrogen atoms. Alternatively known as the Bear Claw Nebula and cataloged as NGC 6334, stars nearly ten times the mass of our Sun have been born there in only the past few million years.