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West of the Pleiades is a red streak that spans 2.5 degrees of sky. NGC1499 is the designation for an emission nebula that emits mostly in a set of narrow Hydrogen bands. Named for its distinct shape, this is the California Nebula.
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🧭 Where is it? View this image via World Wide Telescope.
Telescope:   Svbony sv503 70ED
Length:   336mm
Aperture:   70mm
F-stop:   f/4.56
Sessions:   2
Captured:   2022-12-03 to 2022-12-04
Lights:   66
Exposure:   300
Total exposure:   5 h
Ra:   4h 1m 57.6s
Dec:   +36° 24' 23.306
Size:   195.338 x 133.401 arcmin
Radius:   1.971 deg
Scale:   1.429 arcsec/pixel

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WLike a billowing blanket let down across the sky, this textured red streak is NGC1499, the California Nebula. It sprawls across 2.5 degrees of sky due east of M45.
This picture is just a small part of the California-shaped NGC1499, a faint nebula that requires lots of exposure and/or narrowband filters to truly appreciate.

Objects in frame:

46 Per California Nebula NGC1499 The star Menkib (ξ Per)
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