NGC1499

“California Nebula”

Constellation-Perseus

Right Ascension: 04h 01m 11s

Declination: 36° 38' 19"

Distance: ~1000 light years

Visual Brightness: ? mag

Apparent Dimension: 145 arc minutes total

This image: 50 x 75 arc minutes of central portion

Image information-

Date taken- December 6^th, 2005

Telescope/Focal length/Camera/Temperature- Takahashi FS-78 @ f/8.1, ST-8XE NABG @ -25C, on a NexStar11 GPS autoguided with CCDSoft Ver. 5.0

Integrations- L = 10 x 900 seconds binned 1x1

Processing- Flats and darks, aligned and combined in CCDsoft Ver 5.0, levels and curves in Photoshop CS