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California Love - NGC 1499, Deepan Vishal
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California Love - NGC 1499

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California Love - NGC 1499, Deepan Vishal
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California Love - NGC 1499

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Description

In the constellation Perseus, named for its distinctive shape, the nebula's outline is said to resemble the state of California.
Primarily composed of hydrogen gas, the nebula exhibits the characteristic pinkish glow associated with hydrogen emission. The nebula is illuminated by nearby stars, whose radiation ionizes the hydrogen gas, causing it to emit light. Like many nebulae, the California Nebula is a stellar nursery, hosting the formation of new stars within its gas clouds.

About the acquisition & processing - 
This image was acquired with little but mightly Sharpstar 61edph ii.
The telescope and camera combination resulted in undersampled image. Drizzling and resampling image resulted in over 500 GB storage consumption and  made the image processing really challenging and time consuming.

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