Telescope: Stellarvue SV80-25 80mm Triplet & SV Focal Reducer	Designation: The California Nebula (NGC 1499) is an emission nebula located in the constellation Perseus. It is so named because it appears to resemble the outline of the US State of California on long exposure photographs. It is almost 2.5° long on the sky and, because of its very low surface brightness, it is extremely difficult to observe visually. It can be observed with a Ha filter (isolates the Ha line at 656 nm) or Hß filter (isolates the Hß line at 486 nm) in a rich-field telescope under dark skies. It lies at a distance of about 1,000 light years from Earth. Its fluorescence is due to excitation of the Hß line in the nebula by the nearby prodigiously energetic O7 star, Xi Persei (also known as Menkib, seen at center below. The California Nebula was discovered by E. E. Barnard in 1884.(WIKI)
Mount: Ioptron IEQ30 Pro	Constellation: Perseus
Camera: ZWO ASI294 Pro OSC with Orion Triad filter	Imaged With ZWO ASIAIR Pro
Guiding:ZWO 120 Mini Guider	Type: Emission Nebula.
Exposure Data: 53 - 10 minute sub exposures with the Triad Filter.	Position: R.A. 04h 03m 18s , Dec +°36 25' 18"
Processed using PixInsight and PhotoShop image processing	Date: September 2021
Data Acquisiton, Reduction and Processing by Jim Janusz	Imaging Location: Roadrunner Observatory, backyard, Palm Desert CA