California Nebula (NGC 1499) (Anshul Sanghi)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Perseus (Per) · Contains: 46 Per) · 46 ksi Per · 49 Per · 50 Per · California Nebula · IC 2003 · IC 2005 · IC 2027 · LBN 748 · LBN 752 · LBN 756 · LBN 757 · LDN 1449 · LDN 1456 · LDN 1462 · LDN 1463 · LDN 1464 · LDN 1469 · LDN 1473 · Menkib · NGC 1499 · Perseus · Sh2-220 · The star 49 Per · The star 50 Per · The star Menkib (ξ Per

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California Nebula (NGC 1499)

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California Nebula (NGC 1499)

For almost all of the winter season, certainly since I got all of my new gear, this target has been neglected by me for no apparent reason and not intentionally either. So when I had just over 2 hours window of time between clouds to shoot something, I realised that this would be the perfect target to shoot.

The moon had other plans though. Glaring at 90% illumination but being very close to the target, it introduced very weird halos in the stacked image. This was not unexpected, but was certainly more disappointing than I initially thought.

Given the situation, I think the image turned out okay. It isn't as details as I'd hoped it would be, but mostly because I had to clip of shadows quite a bit to get rid of the halos and rings.

Compared to my very first (and only narrow field attempt), I'd say this is a HUGE improvement to say the least.

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RA (center)	04h01m10s.52
RA (top/left)	04h12m59s.99
RA (top/right)	04h14m56s.40
RA (bottom/right)	03h48m32s.62
RA (bottom/left)	03h48m16s.89

Dec (center)	+36°13′12″.2
Dec (top/left)	+33°30′05″.0
Dec (top/right)	+38°38′20″.6
Dec (bottom/right)	+38°51′57″.7
Dec (bottom/left)	+33°42′55″.7

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