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Telescope: Takahashi FSQ-106ED
Camera: QHY 600M Pro
Mount: Paramount MX+
Astrodon Ha (3nm), SII (3nm), OIII (3nm)
Processed in Pixinsight and Adobe Photoshop
The California Nebula is a large, and long nebula as far as deep-sky objects go. The California Nebula is 2.5° long (60 light-years across), and roughly 1,500 light-years away from Earth, as it is the Perseus constellation, which is visible for a short period of time in the evening, so this image took multiple night sessions which are about 5 days night sessions between 21 August 2023 to 1 September 2023 of total 7 Hours 30 minutes of image integration which led to revealing all the dust around the nebula,