Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Perseus (Per)  ·  Contains:  California Nebula  ·  NGC 1499  ·  The star ξPer
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NGC1499 California Nebula (SHO), Jian Yuan Peng
NGC1499 California Nebula (SHO)
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NGC1499 California Nebula (SHO)

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NGC1499 California Nebula (SHO), Jian Yuan Peng
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NGC1499 California Nebula (SHO)

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Discovered by Edward Barnard in 1885, the California Nebula (NGC 1499) is an emission nebula located in the constellation Perseus about 1,500 light-years from Earth. It is located near the Milky Way's Orion Arm and its size is 2.5° long on the sky or across 100 light-years of space. This cosmic cloud is named California Nebula based on its appearance resembling the outline of State of California. The nebula glows with the energetic starlight that ionizes much of the nebular gas because of the radiation from the intensely hot Xi Persei(aka Menkib) star, the brightest star in this image.

This is a Hubble Palette (SHO) narrowband imaging that NASA tends to use RGB mapping with Sulphur II, Ha, OIII filter data.

Resolution ............... 1.462 arcsec/px

Rotation ................. -179.227 deg

Observation start time ... 2020-11-24 03:17:39 UTC

Observation end time ..... 2020-11-29 12:41:32 UTC

Focal distance ........... 530.48 mm

Pixel size ............... 3.76 um

Field of view ............ 3d 43' 23.5" x 2d 27' 10.4"

Image center ............. RA: 4 01 01.366 Dec: +36 21 48.43

Filters: Astrodon 50mm Unmounted 3nm Narrowband Ha, SII, OIII filters

Ha 74x600" 12 Hours 20 minutes Bin2x2

18x900" 4 Hours 30 Minutes Bin2x2

OIII 67x600" 11 Hours 10 Minutes Bin2x2

SII 69x600" 11 Hours 30 Minutes Bin2x2

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NGC1499 California Nebula (SHO), Jian Yuan Peng

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