NGC1499 California Nebula, broadband

[Fegato]

I was planning a go at the California Nebula in broadband this winter, but was running out of time given other priorities and the lack of clear nights through November and December. However, I got some 33 hours of imaging over four nights around new moon in January and managed to get this done. It's obviously most often imaged narrowband, but turns out it's a great broadband target in reasonably dark skies -  I hadn't realised it sits in the dust in quite this way.

RASA 11 on CEM120, ASI2400MC Pro, 231 x 30s over 2 mosaic panels, imaged 20-23 January.  Bortle 3.

 

 

[Laurin Dave]

Lovely deep image,  dust and quite a few background  galaxies .. Well done 

Dave 

[Neil_104]

Wow - incredible image. I really like these unfamiliar views of familiar objects

[glafnazur]

That's a different view of one of my favourites. I don't think I've seen an image of it with all that dust before, nice one 👍

[Roy Foreman]

I actually prefer your broadband version to the narrow band ones. Nice image, particularly like the surrounding dust areas. Well done.

[simmo39]

Wow, what a stunning image!