{"id":53,"date":"2007-12-20T11:25:26","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T11:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2008-01-24T14:03:51","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T14:03:51","slug":"ngc1499-california-nebula-in-ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"NGC1499 California Nebula in Ha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, that was the coldest, frostiest night I`ve had to endure yet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/images\/misc\/20071219_ice01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The horizon was very murky, but the zenith was very clear and steady&#8230; just a shame about the moon illuminating everything. Time to break out the Hydrogen Alpha filter again.<\/p>\n<p>OTA: William Optics ZenithStar 66 SD + 0.8 FR\/FF<br \/>\nGuiding: NS8GPS @ f\/10 + DSI-C + PHD<br \/>\nImaging: QHY8 + MaximDL, 10 x 900s, Astronomik Ha 13nm<br \/>\nStacked: DeepSkyStacker<br \/>\nPost Process: MaximDL + ImagesPlus + PSCS2 + Noel Carboni\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s AstroTools<br \/>\nNote: I forgot to take bias frames&#8230; doh!<\/p>\n<p>Not sure which version I like best&#8230; the slightly softer whispy one (first), or the more contrasty version (second)<\/p>\n<p>(Click on the image for a larger version)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/images\/ngc\/ngc1499_ha_20071219.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/images\/ngc\/ngc1499_ha_20071219_small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Click on the image for a larger version)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/images\/ngc\/ngc1499_ha_20071219_sharp.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/images\/ngc\/ngc1499_ha_20071219_sharp_small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, that was the coldest, frostiest night I`ve had to endure yet&#8230; The horizon was very murky, but the zenith was very clear and steady&#8230; just a shame about the moon illuminating everything. Time to break out the Hydrogen Alpha filter again. OTA: William Optics ZenithStar 66 SD + 0.8 FR\/FF Guiding: NS8GPS @ f\/10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}