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California Nebula NGC1499, matthew.maclean
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California Nebula NGC1499

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California Nebula NGC1499

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Winter does not allow for many imaging opportunities, but I managed to get a few hours in. The first half of December had a lot of intermittently clear skies, but only for short periods of time and usually during very dynamic weather fronts. I took this data with sustained 30 mph (50 kph) winds, so tracking accuracy was quite bad! - but, given that my seeing is never great anyway, I still got some useful data out of the effort with a little extra star shaping....

I've never had a chance to image NGC1499 before, so it was fun to see it for the first time. Four hours isn't really enough to get a very smooth background, but I went with the pseudo-SHO coloring. I think it brings out a lot more depth. When I look at the red image, it does look like the shape of California; in the SHO, though, it looks more like a deep line of clouds illuminated by a sun rise to me.

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California Nebula NGC1499, matthew.maclean