The California Nebula

Image Title: The California Nebula

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Date image was taken: October 25, 2023

Location: Animas, NM, USA

Image Description and Details: The California Nebula
this is my " first light" image taken at Dark Sky New Mexico on my Takahashi FSQ106/A-P 1100 combo
The California Nebula (NGC 1499) is an emission nebula about 1000 Light years from Earth.
Its name comes from the fact that the central most often imaged portion looks (a bit) like the outline of the state of California.
So maybe I should call this image "the West coast Nebula" as it does extend a fair bit further as its brightness diminishes.
This is a two-pane mosaic to capture the full width, and actually it was quite a 'pain' to process as Pixinsight's Mosaic process introduced artifacts and I eventually separately processed both images all the way through and merged the jpegs in PS.
The nebula is principally "excited" by the nearby star super energetic star Xi Persei (Menkib) the bright star in the image.
Its a very large image so probably mangled by FB
Tech stuff:
Telescope Takahashi FSQ 106 EDX4
Mount A-P 1100 GTO AE
QHY 600 camera and QHY Filter wheel
Chroma 3nm Filters SHO 20-26 x 15min ( 20min for OIII)for each filter and each pane
Nitecrawler Focuser
Eagle 4 Pro computer
Ha 15 x15 min, OIII 12 x 15 min, SII 5 x 15 min
Location : Animas , NM, USA
Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop

Equipment Details: Telescope Takahashi FSQ 106 EDX4
Mount A-P 1100 GTO AE
QHY 600 camera and QHY Filter wheel
Chroma 3nm Filters SHO 20-26 x 15min ( 20min for OIII)for each filter and each pane
Nitecrawler Focuser
Eagle 4 Pro computer
Ha 15 x15 min, OIII 12 x 15 min, SII 5 x 15 min
Location : Animas , NM, USA
Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop

Copyright: Richard Whitehead 2023