Ngc1499

[Nicola]

Dear All,

many years passed since my first image of the California Nebula. The first time was a composite of 3 images with a Kodak E200 film pushed to 400ISO in post-processing.
Now that I'm completely into digital era I decided to give it another try and this is the result.
You may find the technical details and the higher resolution version at my website: http://skymonsters.net/immagine.php?img=NGC1499.jpg

[jjjnettie]

:) A beautiful capture and lovely processing.

[Nicola]

Thanks JJ :)

[nebulosity.]

Top image Nicola :thumbsup: love the sharpness and colour of the stars.

Jo

[jeff.d69]

Very nice shot Nik. Great result.
I like spikes :)

J

[RickS]

Love the vivid colours, Nicola!

[cometcatcher]

Such a lovely shade of red with the contrasting stars. It's a work of art.

[batema]

Beautiful.

[Ross G]

A beautiful photo Nicola.

I love the colours and contrasts.

Ross.

[Nicola]

Thank you folks! However I did realize I exceeded with the red emission of the nebula, after all it seemed like there is no other emission but h-alpha, which is not true. Therefore I reprocessed it and this is the new result:
http://skymonsters.net/immagine.php?img=NGC1499_2.jpg