Object near California Nebula

[Rodd]

Does anyone know if the little red feature in the upper left corner is real, or an artifact of some kind?  

[symmetal]

It's at the position of PGC14030 which is classed as a spiral galaxy. Here's an HST image of it confirming the bright star in front of the spiral arms and the two bright stars either side. 🙂

Alan

Edited January 9, 2023 by symmetal

[Rodd]

2 hours ago, symmetal said:

It's at the position of PGC14030 which is classed as a spiral galaxy. Here's an HST image of it confirming the bright star in front of the spiral arms and the two bright stars either side. 🙂

Alan

Wow.  Is that your image?  Amazing. I guess I botched the processing on that one!  I guess yours is flipped with respect to mine.  The bright star in yours is at upper left and in mine the Lower right

edit:-yes, I found it in telescopius.  Never thought it would be a galaxy!

Edited January 9, 2023 by Rodd

[teoria_del_big_bang]

3 hours ago, Rodd said:

Wow.  Is that your image?  Amazing. I guess I botched the processing on that one!  I guess yours is flipped with respect to mine.  The bright star in yours is at upper left and in mine the Lower right

edit:-yes, I found it in telescopius.  Never thought it would be a galaxy!

It is a Hubble image, if I could move to Cornwall (330 miles south of me) and get images like that I would be packing now whether wife and kids were coming or not  🙂 

steve