Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Sculptor (Scl)  ·  Contains:  NGC 253  ·  Sculptor Filament  ·  Sculptor galaxy  ·  Silver Coin
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The Silver Coin galaxy, NGC 253, Aleix Roig
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The Silver Coin galaxy, NGC253, was discovered by the astronomer and mathematician Caroline Herschel in 1783. It can be located in the southern constellation of Sculptor some 11.4 million light-years from Earth. It has a great star rate formation. It's the largest member of the Sculptor Group of Galaxies, the nearest to our Local Group of galaxies. 


The dusty extended halo that surrounds this galaxy is composed of thousands of stars and it's really faint. I was able to capture this structure thanks to the dark sky of the Namibian desert. I spent one week there last September to capture some images of the southern night sky. Darkness reached an amazing 22.15 mag/arcsc2.


Image details:

L: 40x300"
RGB: (20;15;15)x300" 
Data acquisition: September 2021

All images at -30ºC bin1

Calibrated with 24 flats, 24 darks, 24 bias 

Total exposure: 7h30’ 

Average darkness: 22.15 mag/arcsec2

Image resolution: 1.15”/pixelFOV: 1.43ºx1.15º

Equipment:

ASA N12 f/3.6 Astrograph
ASA DDM85 mount
FLI 16200 CCD camera
Astrodon LRGB filters


  Aleix Roig - NAMIBIA (Tivoli Astrofarm), November 2021.

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The Silver Coin galaxy, NGC 253, Aleix Roig

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