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• RA: 04:00.7
• Dec:  +36:37
• Magnitude:
• Size: 145 x 40 arc min
• Distance: 1,000 ly
• Constellation:  Perseus

• Scope: Orion ED80 f/7
• Autoguider: ST-4 faint mode
• Sky conditions:  Average seeing and transparency
• Camera: Griffin modified Canon 350XT ISO800
• Exposure: 6 x 10 minutes
• Date:  October 29, 2008

Comments:  The California Nebula, NGC 1499, was discovered by E. E. Barnard in about 1884-85. It is probably iluminated by Xi Persei, a hot blue-white main sequence star. This was a cold night for the season going down in to the mid-20s.