The California Nebula
The famous California nebula in Perseus, a large cloud of gas and dust actively emitting the characteristic red light of hydrogen alpha located 1000 light years away in a particularly dusty part of the Perseus arm of our Milky Way. The hot bright star Xi Persei illuminates the nebula.
This widefield image was shot with a William Optics Redcat51 scope and ASI 2600MC OSC camera. It is an integration of 9 hours data shot with an Optolong L-eXtreme filter and 10 hours shot with just the built in UVIR cut filter. All post-processing was carried out in PixInsight.
The California Nebula
The famous California nebula in Perseus, a large cloud of gas and dust actively emitting the characteristic red light of hydrogen alpha located 1000 light years away in a particularly dusty part of the Perseus arm of our Milky Way. The hot bright star Xi Persei illuminates the nebula.
This widefield image was shot with a William Optics Redcat51 scope and ASI 2600MC OSC camera. It is an integration of 9 hours data shot with an Optolong L-eXtreme filter and 10 hours shot with just the built in UVIR cut filter. All post-processing was carried out in PixInsight.