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NGC 1499 - CALIFORNIA NEBULA - PERSEUS CONSTELLATION, Stefano Attalienti
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NGC 1499 - CALIFORNIA NEBULA - PERSEUS CONSTELLATION

NGC 1499 - CALIFORNIA NEBULA - PERSEUS CONSTELLATION, Stefano Attalienti
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NGC 1499 - CALIFORNIA NEBULA - PERSEUS CONSTELLATION

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The California Nebula, catalog number NGC 1499, owes its name to its resemblance to its American state counterpart.
It is a diffuse nebula more than 100 light years long located in the constellation of Perseus, in the outer part of the Orion arm of our galaxy about 1000 light years from the solar system. The region is extremely rich in ionized hydrogen, which makes it an area of ​​high star formation, with stars that have a mass even 50 times greater than the Sun.
In this image I used the technique made famous by NASA with its Hubble Space Telescope called SHO or Hubble Palette.
This technique involves the use of interference filters which serve to isolate the three elements of which the emission nebulae are composed.
Ionized oxygen (Blue color)
Ionized hydrogen (Green color)
Ionized sulfur (yellow orange color)
I tried to keep the palette as scientifically faithful as possible in order to make the separation of the three physical elements evident at the expense of the artistic rendering, so I kept the green tones and a bit of magenta on the stars.

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