Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Sculptor (Scl)  ·  Contains:  NGC 253  ·  Sculptor Filament  ·  Silver Coin
The Sculptor Galaxy, Charles Duarte FRAS
The Sculptor Galaxy
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The Sculptor Galaxy

The Sculptor Galaxy, Charles Duarte FRAS
The Sculptor Galaxy
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The Sculptor Galaxy

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The Sculptor Galaxy (also known as the Silver Dollar Galaxy or NGC 253) is a bright intermediate spiral galaxy of about 70 thousand light-years across that lies some 11,4 million light-years away in the southern constellation Sculptor, while it is moving away from us at approximately 243 kilometers per second.It is the largest and brightest member of the Sculptor Group of Galaxies, one of the nearest groups of galaxies to the Milky Way.We see the Sculptor Galaxy almost edge-on, and although very bright, this galaxy is also very dusty. In addition to the dust lanes along its spiral arms, tendrils of dust seem to be rising from the galactic disk. This galaxy also shows clumpy gas clouds, and young, luminous star clusters.Raw data what taken by David Plesko from the Cheery Mountain Observatory, for the  images integration and color processing I used both Pixinsight and Photoshop to achieve this lovely photo of the Sculptor Galaxy.

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The Sculptor Galaxy, Charles Duarte FRAS