Wednesday, 22 April 2020

NGC 1499, The California Nebula

This image was taken using an 80mm, f/6.3 refractor mounted on a Vixen Atlux mount.
PHD autoguiding was used with an Atik 383L mono CCD camera and a set of Astronomik narrowband filters.

The total exposure times were 60 min using an OIII filter, 60 min using a SII filter and 3 hours using a H-alpha filter.

ten minute sub-frames with matching dark frames were captured and they were combined with flat-fields to reduce the effects of vignetting in the final image.

NGC 1499 bi colour

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NGC 1499 RGB narrowband luminance

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NGC 1499 Hubble Palette

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NGC 1499 Hubble Palette plus RGB

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