NGC1499 - The California Nebula

Perseus

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Bright Nebula

NGC 1499 - Bright Nebula - North is Left
Date: Oct 04, 2007 Time: 02:30 CST Location: Haltom City Tx
Instrument: 106mm F/5 Takahashi FSQ106N Mount: AP1200GTO Guiding: Internal Guider
Extra Hardware: None Seeing: Good Transparency: Fair
Camera: SBIG STL11K Filter Wheel: Internal Filter: AstroDon 6nm Ha
Exposure: 7 x 1800 Seconds Ha Camera Control: MaximDL 4.11 Processing: MaximDL,Sigma-Reject, PSCS
Image Center: RA 04h 03m 46s, Dec +36d 22m 56s, Pos Angle -00d 40'
Effective Focal Length 530 mm ~3.5" per Pixel
Notes: Calm. Temp ~68 Degrees F. Guiding was ~ .8 arc second