California Nebula (NGC 1499)

After weeks of cloudy skies I had the opportunity to photograph the California Nebula.

Distance approx. 1000 LJ, HII,

62 x 120 sec. @ ISO800. TS72, 432mm, Canon 550Da.

Stacking in Siril, Processing in Siril, Gimp, Lightroom.

 

Processing: Background neutralization

Processing: Color Calibration

Processing: Histogram Transf. (mid=0.006, lo=0.008, hi=1.000)

Processing: SCNR (type=0, amount=1.00, preserve=true)

Done