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NGC 1499 California Nebula (77mm EOS Ra).jpg
NGC 1499, the California Nebula, in Perseus.
This visually faint emission nebula (but easy to capture with a camera) shines above the hot blue star Zeta Persei, aka Menkib, and is surrounded by other faint threshold nebulosity.
This is a stack of 8 x 8-minute exposures through the Borg 77mm f/4 astrograph and with the Canon EOS Ra red-sensitive mirrorless camera, at ISO 800. Stacked, aligned and processed in Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop 2020. No nebula or light pollution reduction filter was employed in taking the images. I shot this from home November 25, 2019 on a very fine if frosty autumn night. The Dew Destroyer heater coil from David Lane wrapped around the front objective lens nicely kept off the frost.
This visually faint emission nebula (but easy to capture with a camera) shines above the hot blue star Zeta Persei, aka Menkib, and is surrounded by other faint threshold nebulosity.
This is a stack of 8 x 8-minute exposures through the Borg 77mm f/4 astrograph and with the Canon EOS Ra red-sensitive mirrorless camera, at ISO 800. Stacked, aligned and processed in Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop 2020. No nebula or light pollution reduction filter was employed in taking the images. I shot this from home November 25, 2019 on a very fine if frosty autumn night. The Dew Destroyer heater coil from David Lane wrapped around the front objective lens nicely kept off the frost.
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- © 2019 Alan Dyer
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- 6680x4440 / 23.2MB
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