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NGC1499

NGC 1499 - The California Nebula

NGC 1499, also known as the California Nebula is located approximately 1,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Perseus.

 The data for this image was acquired on December 26th - 27th, 2008 at the CCD Sky Observatory in Redlands, California, USA.  The final image seen here is a mosaic of 3 sets of  Ha (3nm) images taken with a Takahashi FSQ-106ED telescope and a QSI 532wsi camera cooled to -20° C.

The  sub-exposures were processed using CCDStack and Photoshop CS.  The images were calibrated, registered, normalized, STD sigma reject and combined in CCDStack.  The two resulting image was then brought into Photoshop for final processing.  Noel Carboni's Astronomy Tools for Photoshop were used for local contrast enhancement.

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