Ngc1499

[Nicola (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 (Jeanette)]

A beautiful capture and lovely processing.

[Nicola (Nicola)]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

A beautiful capture and lovely processing.

Thanks JJ

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

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

Jo

[jeff.d69 (Jeff)]

Very nice shot Nik. Great result.
I like spikes

J

[RickS (Rick)]

Love the vivid colours, Nicola!

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

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

[batema (Mark)]

Beautiful.

[Ross G]

A beautiful photo Nicola.

I love the colours and contrasts.

Ross.

[Nicola (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