Distant Galaxies off the Coast of California (Terry Hancock)

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Distant Galaxies off the Coast of California

While the main and most prominent object in this image is the Glowing California Nebula otherwise known as NGC 1499, there is much dust and in the annotated version www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/49425960883/in/datepos... an abundance of distant galaxies are also visible. It only takes 1000 years for light to reach us from the California Nebula, yet in this very same image we are looking at photons that left the distant elliptical galaxy IC 2027 287 million years ago.

Captured from Grand Mesa Observatory in Western Colorado over 3 nights using the QHY128C Full Frame One Shot color CMOS camera on one of the Twin Takahashi E-180 Astrographs “System 4a” and available from their legacy data archive: grandmesaobservatory.com/legacy

Total Integration time 13 hours

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Terry Hancock downunderobservatory.com

Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado

Dates of capture: December 30th 2019, 14th, 17th January 2020

Color RGGB 785 min, 157 x 300 sec

Camera: QHY128C Color CMOS

Calibrated with flat, Dark & Bias

Optics: Takahashi E-180 Astrograph

Filter UV-IR Cut by Optolong

Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6

Pre Processed in Pixinsight

Post Processed in Photoshop

Star Reduction with Starnet

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