Object: NGC
1499 California Nebula
Equipment: Takahashi
FSQ-106N on EM-200; SBIG STL-11000M, Astrodon filters; Vixen 70X600
guidescope
Exposure/Processing: RGB - 3 x 300s;
Hydrogen alpha as Luminance - 3 x 900s; Images acquistion/processing
in MaximDL ad Photoshop.
Location/Date: 10
October 2010; Chiefland Astronomy Village
Comment:
These exposures were taken early on the morning of 10 October
through moderate ground fog at Chiefland Astronomy Village.
NGC
1499 is an emission nebula in Perseus. It is located 1,500 light
years distant in the Orion arm of the Milky Way where the Sun is
also located. It is 100 light-years long. It glows with the red
light characteristic of hydrogen atoms recombining with long lost
electrons, stripped away (ionized) by energetic starlight. In this
case, the star most likely providing the energetic starlight is the
bright, hot, bluish Xi Persei, just below the nebula (description
abstracted from NASA APOD website).
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