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California Nebula, Ed Albin
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California Nebula

California Nebula, Ed Albin
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California Nebula

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California dreaming on such a winter's night.... Another image taken Tuesday evening during a remarkably clear night where the winter Milky Way shone brilliantly over my observatory. The "California Nebula," as it is called due to its resemblance to the golden state of the same name, is an emission nebula glowing within the constellation of Perseus. My RASA 8 telescope picked up this dusty cloud of hydrogen gas, located more than 1000 light years away from Earth, with interstellar photons of light being collected over a period of two hours by an attached ASI294 camera. The dark mottled clouds within will one day spawn new stars, planets, and possibly life!

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California Nebula, Ed Albin

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