NGC 253 - The Sculptor Galaxy
Data:
Oliver Czernetz / August 2013 / Leibnitz Austria
RGB 18x360s
SkyWatcher 200/1000 F5 Newtonian
Canon EOS 1100 D unmodded
Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro SynScan
Lacerta M-GEN2 Autoguider
Additional data: POSS-II Survey (R, B), 2MASS Survey (IR J/H/K-band)
Image Assembly and Processing: Oliver Czernetz
Software: Fits Liberator, Deep Sky Stacker, RegiStar, Photoshop CS5E
The Sculptor Galaxy, also known as the Silver Coin or Silver Dollar Galaxy, NGC 253, is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor.
Estimated to be roughly 11,4 million light years away, NGC 253 is also considered one of the brightest and most easily viewed galaxies in the sky, after Andromeda.
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www.lostinspace.atPOSS-II:
The Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II) was made by the California Institute of Technology with funds from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, the Sloan Foundation, the Samuel Oschin Foundation, and the Eastman Kodak Corporation.
2MASS:
This publication makes use of data products from the Two Micron All Sky Survey, which is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation.
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