NGC 1499 - California Nebula

Image Description and Details : To make this a little different to the usual red images of this target, I used narrowband filters and processed this in the SHO Hubble palette resulting in a colourful rainbow-like image. The OIII signal was however very faint, so I captured extra data with this, 19 hours in all, resulting in 48 hours total integration time.

Date of capture: Jan 13 to Feb 17, 2023
Location of capture: Castilléjar, Spain

Light frames:
Ha: 83 x 600 seconds
OIII 114 x 600 seconds
SII: 74 x 600 seconds
Red: 25 x 180 seconds
Green: 24 x 180 seconds
Blue: 25 x 180 seconds

Total Integration: 48 hours 55 minutes

My equipment and details are:

Telescope: Takahaski FSQ106
Mount: Software Bisque Paramount MX+
Camera: Moravian C3-16000 PRO
Filters: 3nM Chroma Ha, OIII, SII and Red, Blue, Green for the RGB stars
Guiding: Moravian C1-1500 and OAG
Focuser: Moonlite NiteCrawler WR35

Copyright: Copyright: Neil Corke