20210306 NGC 1499 California Nebula (Alex)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Perseus (Per) · Contains: 46 ksi Per · California Nebula · IC 2005 · IC 2027 · Menkib · NGC 1499 · Perseus · Sh2-220 · The star ξPer

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20210306 NGC 1499 California Nebula

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20210306 NGC 1499 California Nebula

My first time shooting an emission nebula!

No obnoxious 240 pixel vertical color stripe in the center either. I took care to take good flats tonight, and I also wrapped my entire setup in a blackout curtain for all dark, bias, and dark flat calibration frames.

I could hide the dust around the nebula that is not red. It might make a cleaner image, but I don't like hiding data if I can help it. Regardless, I am super excited after tonight.

I adjusted my backfocus too much when I put in the L-eNhance filter, so I will need to get that adjusted before my next session.

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Description: I got a few more hours of data on Sunday and Monday and put more effort into getting the surrounding nebulosity in the processing. This is the first time I have stacked data from multiple days, so this is 3x the amount of integration time of any of my other shots. I'll probably use this data to practice processing and maybe use it to try out other tools like PixInsight. This was still DSS + PS.

Unfortunately with my location (Bortle 5/6) and the the time of year, the nebula would drop into the light dome north of us pretty quick.

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Description: Tried to reduce stars and bring out the darker dust clouds.

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Description: Went back and processed it again for practice. No additional data.

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Description: Tried to be lighter on the noise reduction and push it later in the workflow to better see that dark dust in front of the red.

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	4306446
PixInsight job	M4HT7P4EODIL7OH2G26WRC4XZHISAO8P
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	n/a

RA (center)	04h01m35s.58
RA (top/left)	04h14m59s.99
RA (top/right)	03h58m49s.91
RA (bottom/right)	03h47m57s.35
RA (bottom/left)	04h04m09s.13

Dec (center)	+36°23′44″.3
Dec (top/left)	+35°47′40″.3
Dec (top/right)	+39°07′19″.6
Dec (bottom/right)	+36°54′15″.3
Dec (bottom/left)	+33°40′14″.8

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