Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Sculptor (Scl)  ·  Contains:  NGC 253  ·  Sculptor Filament  ·  Silver Coin
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NGC 253 - Sculptor Galaxy - HaLRGB, Aaron Smibert
NGC 253 - Sculptor Galaxy - HaLRGB
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NGC 253 - Sculptor Galaxy - HaLRGB

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NGC 253 - Sculptor Galaxy - HaLRGB, Aaron Smibert
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NGC 253 - Sculptor Galaxy - HaLRGB

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Ha 9x 20min
Lum (no filter) 9x 7min
Red 5x 7min (3 subs stuffed up and didnt have time to reaquire)
Green 8x 7min
Blue 8x 7min

Total integration 6hrs 30min

Was pretty windy, but managed to get something.
Still trying to figure out how to colour calibrate the stars correctly when they're always so bloated in Blue.

I love doing galaxies, but I'm so rarely able to get to a dark sky site to get decent data.

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NGC 253 - Sculptor Galaxy - HaLRGB, Aaron Smibert