NGC 1499 is a large diffuse nebula in the constellation of Perseus, nicknamed for the US state which it resembles. It is approximately 100 light years long and 1000 light years away in the Orion arm of the Milky Way. The gas is excited by the nearby star Xi Persei, to the right of frame, causing it to glow and emit light at specific wavelengths.

The image was shot using narrowband filters and a monochrome camera. This isolates the emission lines of light associated with Hydrogen, Oxygen and Sulphur emission nebulae allowing for more detailed information to be gathered. In this false colour image, I used the colour mapping made famous by the Hubble Space Telescope which I then tweaked it to suit my vision for this image. Pink shows Hydrogen, Sulphur adds a lighter tonal highlight and the diffuse blue area show the faint oxygen signal in this object.

16 hours of exposure was used to create this image.

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