The South Galactic Pole (Dan Bartlett)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Sculptor (Scl) · Contains: HD4124 · HD4168 · HD4389 · HD4572 · HD4631 · HD4672 · HD4690 · HD4707 · HD4763 · HD5067 · HD5455 · IC 1576 · IC 1578 · IC 1579 · NGC 253 · NGC 288 · Sculptor Filament · Sculptor galaxy · Silver Coin

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The South Galactic Pole

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Both object never ventured higher than 28 degrees on the Meridian!

Ever wanted to know where our own galaxy's (The Milky Way) center of rotation (pole) is pointed to in space? Well here is the southern pole, also known as the South Galactic Pole (SGP).

In the constellation of Sculptor it is a tough one to photograph from our northern latitude. Two fabulous objects lie near the SGP and they're both amazing to see in dark skies and a good pair of binocculars. The globular cluster - NGC288 is a bright "loose" gc with some rich colors. The Galaxy NGC253 or the silver dollar galaxy was discovered by Caroline Herschel and is the 3rd largest galaxy as seen from earth, in our night sky - spanning a length of the full moon.

The first time I saw both in the same field of view I was floored. I wondered why I had never heard of such a bright and close pair of beautiful objects in the night sky. Perhaps its because they are indeed hard to catch in a telescope never rising more than 28 degrees off the southern horizon from June Lake California.

It took me four nights to gather enough exposure time to make this very basic image.

So, next time you visit the center of our Milky Way and look straight down, this is the area of sky you would be peering at.

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Status	Advanced success
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	00h49m20s.58
RA (top/left)	00h57m38s.70
RA (top/right)	00h48m48s.92
RA (bottom/right)	00h41m09s.24
RA (bottom/left)	00h49m53s.35

Dec (center)	-26°01′29″.5
Dec (top/left)	-26°42′08″.2
Dec (top/right)	-24°03′09″.0
Dec (bottom/right)	-25°19′09″.5
Dec (bottom/left)	-27°59′58″.4

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