Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Perseus (Per)  ·  Contains:  46 Per)  ·  California Nebula  ·  NGC 1499  ·  The star Menkib (ξ Per
California Nebula, Dave Venne
California Nebula
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California Nebula

California Nebula, Dave Venne
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California Nebula

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This image celebrates my first-ever image of a deep sky object from around 1979. I was doing a piggy-back wide field image of Perseus with my Olympus OM1, a Tamron lens and probably Kodachrome color film. When the slides came back there was this terrible red blotch on the image! It was a complete surprise to me that I could capture anything other than stars, and seeing what I would learn was the California Nebula showing up so clearly was a real thrill. 

Now it's 43 years later, and the thrill is still alive

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California Nebula, Dave Venne