California in Context

[Knight of Clear Skies]

Here's a composite image showing NGC 1499 to scale with the foreground, with a closer RGBHa inset taken with 135mm and 200mm lenses. At centre bottom you can just see the imaging rig pointed straight at the nebula.

I wondered why the California Nebula was so bright, it turns out that Xi Persei is one of the hottest stars in our galaxy. More of a write-up here if anyone is interested.

Edited May 21, 2020 by Knight of Clear Skies

[happy-kat]

Great idea to illustrate like that. 

Ah the line is a pointer and not pylon cable

Edited May 21, 2020 by happy-kat

[ollypenrice]

Context is always interesting and Registar is such a great tool.

Olly

PS the house made me jump: it's a dead ringer for our last house in the UK, right down to the balcony for the dormer!

Edited May 21, 2020 by ollypenrice

[tomato]

50 minutes ago, ollypenrice said:

Context is always interesting and Registar is such a great tool.

Olly

PS the house made me jump: it's a dead ringer for our last house in the UK, right down to the balcony for the dormer!

And I bet you also had four domes in your back garden.☺️

[clarkpm4242]

Looks like I will be getting Registar next season...

...really like the way you portray the 'depth' of the night sky through the images.

 

Paul

Edited May 21, 2020 by clarkpm4242

[ollypenrice]

5 hours ago, tomato said:

And I bet you also had four domes in your back garden.☺️

No, but future archaeologists studying the town of Wirksworth will wonder why curious concrete circles had been cast in a number of the town's gardens during the late 20th Century...

😁lly

[Knight of Clear Skies]

Glad you like it, took a lot of hair-pulling to knock NGC 1499 into some kind of shape.

19 hours ago, ollypenrice said:

No, but future archaeologists studying the town of Wirksworth will wonder why curious concrete circles had been cast in a number of the town's gardens during the late 20th Century...

😁lly

Future archaeologists will likely refer to this as the Hasbro or Fischer-Price age.

[swag72]

Loving the context .... Gives it real interest 👍