NGC 1499 in Perseus is a large, bright emission nebula created by the bright blue star Xi Persei irradiating a hydrogen gas cloud with UV. The brightest part of the nebula spans 5 degrees on the sky and just fits on the sensor of my QHY9 when used with my Zenithstar 70 and 0.8x reducer.
This is 110 minutes of 10 minute frames captured on Tuesday evening, processed with Pixinsight.
