California Nebula NGC1499

[carastro]

My final image from my stay at our East Sussex campsite Bortle 4.

Atik460EX and Samyang lens 135mm @ F2.8
Ha 13 x 600
Red 5 x 300
Green 12 x 300
Blue 12 x 300
Ha blended into the Red channel so there was not much Red data taken, mainly for the stars.
HEQ5

Total 4 1/2 hours

[MarkAR]

Lovely image Carole, looks really clean and smooth.

[carastro]

Thanks Mark.

Carole 

[ollypenrice]

Very smooth, Carole, and a good field given how big this object is.

To my eye the black point looks a little high and perhaps you might coax out a little more local contrast?

Olly

[carastro]

You mean too black = high? 

Funny thing is normally my images the sky background is probably too light. 

Carole