Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Sculptor (Scl)  ·  Contains:  IC 1537  ·  NGC 55
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NGC 55 - The Cigar, Andrew Lockwood
NGC 55 - The Cigar
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NGC 55 - The Cigar

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NGC 55 - The Cigar, Andrew Lockwood
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NGC 55 - The Cigar

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2 Megaparsecs away in the Sculptor Group, NGC 55 is a very loose SB(s)m: sp galaxy with a poorly defined nucleus.

This object is quite large, 32.4 by 5.6 arc minutes.

There are numerous background galaxies also visible in this image.

Some calibration problems in the luminance frames and poor seeing conditions limit the amount of detail in this image, but it is definitely on the list for a dark sky site in the future.

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NGC 55 - The Cigar, Andrew Lockwood