New Image: NGC1499 California Nebula in Ha
Category: Astronomy Images
Posted by: Tom How
Managed the first decent image for a month
Horrible moon. Crystal clear skies. Bloody typical.
NGC 1499 California Nebula
The clarity of the sky demanded some imaging, despite a very strong moon, so I decided to go for something bright.
After looking at several targets, I finally ended up on NGC1499, the California Nebula. Suprisingly I've never imaging this rather famous target before, so I left the scope to get on with it at about 10pm whilst I went to bed.
In the morning I had 17x1200s decent frames and about 5x1200s of poor frames - some guiding gremlins. I also had a great deal of ice and frost on the telescope - however, it is used to that sort of thing, so no worries.
I've processed the image and I am fairly pleased with it - it is a bit washed out and low in contrast due to the moon, but pleasing nevertheless.
NGC 1499 California Nebula
Horrible moon. Crystal clear skies. Bloody typical.
NGC 1499 California Nebula
The clarity of the sky demanded some imaging, despite a very strong moon, so I decided to go for something bright.
After looking at several targets, I finally ended up on NGC1499, the California Nebula. Suprisingly I've never imaging this rather famous target before, so I left the scope to get on with it at about 10pm whilst I went to bed.
In the morning I had 17x1200s decent frames and about 5x1200s of poor frames - some guiding gremlins. I also had a great deal of ice and frost on the telescope - however, it is used to that sort of thing, so no worries.
I've processed the image and I am fairly pleased with it - it is a bit washed out and low in contrast due to the moon, but pleasing nevertheless.
NGC 1499 California Nebula
