California gleaming
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Andrei Pleskatsevich from Minsk, Belarus The California Nebula (NGC 1499), is a roughly 2.5°-long cloud of glowing hydrogen gas in Perseus between 1,000 and 1,500 light-years away, lit by ultraviolet light from the nearby star Xi Persei. The imager collected 8⅓ hours of exposure through a 3-inch f/4.5 refractor with a quad-band filter and one-shot Continue reading "California gleaming" The post California gleaming appeared first on Astronomy Magazine .
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