Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Perseus (Per)  ·  Contains:  California Nebula  ·  NGC 1499  ·  The star 50Per  ·  The star ξPer
The California nebula, Artūras Medvedevas
The California nebula
Powered byPixInsight
The California nebula, Artūras Medvedevas
The California nebula
Powered byPixInsight

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

The California nebula in modified Hubble palette. It is named so, due to it's look alike appearance of state of California. A low surface brightness emission nebula, and to human eye would appear red, or slightly pink-ish, as usual for hydrogen rich nebula. Located in our galaxies Orion arm, stretches itself around 100 light years

This one was in my bucket list for quite some time now, mainly because I've seen all the rainbow colors in some of the other peoples images and wanted to see for myself how much I can get. Sadly, this image is not what it could be, mainly because of my still ongoing fight with lens tilt after switching to filterwheel setup instead of filter drawer. And tilt is what made me stop short with the frames on this target, as I could see all the bloated and elongated stars (mainly bottom left) and it was very unappealing to me.

Comments

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

The California nebula, Artūras Medvedevas