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In 1891 Simon Archenhold published a paper Ein ausgedehnter Nebel bei ξ Persei. The California Nebula appeared on a plate taken with a 3.1" f/2.5 Busch portrait lense (exposure time 32 min) at Halensee, near Berlin. Instead of the photograph Archenhold presented only a sketch. He wrote that "Dreyer’s new catalogue of nebulae lists under No. 1499 the following nebula, discovered by Barnard". Scheiner photographed NGC 1499 with a 4" f/3.3 Voigtländer Euryskop (exposure time 6 hours) in Nov. 1893 at Potsdam Observatory.
| D | N | NI | Y | M | D | Ap | I | T | Discoverer | Con | Type | S | Name | Author | Title | Source |
| N | 1499 | 1891 | 10 | 27 | 3,1 | Rr | p | Barnard 3.11.1885 | PER | EN | 2 | California Nebula | Archenhold | Ein ausgedehnter Nebel bei ξ Persei | AN [3082] 129, 153-158 (1891) |
