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Old 12-12-2010, 08:52 AM
Martin Pugh
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Ngc 1499 - Modified.

Hello all

This is a HaL(Syn)RGB image of the California Nebula. RGB was 9 hours and Ha was 6 hours. FSQ106/16803 camera.

Controlling the reflections off Mag 4 Menkib was just as problematic as Altinak is.

What I did not expect to pick up is all the dust in the lower right of the image extending off the main nebula. I had not seen this before in images of this object. Sure enough though, even my planetarium software shows patches of dust there, almost devoid of stars.

http://tinyurl.com/32j82pg

thanks for looking
Cheers
Martin

Last edited by Martin Pugh; 17-12-2010 at 03:33 PM.
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