California Nebula

NGC 1499 - California Nebula

 

This is my first finished astrophotography product. Taken from Lake Lawtonka, OK on December 3rd.

 

Details:

-Camera: modified Canon 450D

-Scope: Orion 80 ED refractor

-Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G

-Guiding: Orion StarShoot Autoguider on Orion ST 80 with PHD Guiding software

-Exposure: 16 x 5 mins at ISO 800. 80 mins total exposure

-12 dark frames

-25 flat frames

-Calibrated, Aligned, and Stacked in Images Plus.

-Digital Development in Images Plus

-Levels, Curves, Color Enhancement, GradientXTerminator, Noise Ninja, and Sharpening in Photoshop CS4.

-Mount Control via EQMOD and Cartes du Ciel

-Camera Control via Images Plus

Done