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I agreeImaging camera:ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
Guiding telescope or lens:Skywatcher 9x50 finder
Guiding camera:Lacerta MGEN
Software:Pleiades Astrophoto, S.L. Pix Insight, APT - Astro Photography Tool APT 3.13, Photoshop
Filter:Astronomik LRGB 31mm
Resolution: 1701x1276
Dates:Aug. 22, 2017
Frames: 62x180"
Integration: 3.1 hours
Avg. Moon age: 0.79 days
Avg. Moon phase: 0.70%
Astrometry.net job: 1758095
RA center: 13.755 degrees
DEC center: -37.674 degrees
Pixel scale: 1.457 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 228.209 degrees
Field radius: 0.430 degrees
Locations: Hakos Guest Farm, 100km past Windhoek, Namibia
NGC300 is one of the great galaxies of the southern sky, in the constellation Sculptor. It's a Sc type resembling a lot the Triangulum Galaxy. Its distance is about 7 Million Lightyears only, just about 3 times as far as the Andromeda. Its stars are partly resolved, and partly faint star groups look like noise blotches but they aren't. I did referencing with the great CHART32 pic available on the net: Every suspect speck is resolved there into small stars. I need a bigger telescope! :-)
In the field lots of background galaxies, and even galaxy clusters - check out the annotated version.
Taken with 8" f/4 Newtonian on CGE Pro.
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