Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Sculptor (Scl)  ·  Contains:  IC 1537  ·  NGC 55
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NGC 55 - Magellanic type barred spiral galaxy in Sculptor - IAS Remote Dec 2022 - LHaRGB v1, 



    
        

            Martin Junius
NGC 55 - Magellanic type barred spiral galaxy in Sculptor - IAS Remote Dec 2022 - LHaRGB v1
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NGC 55 - Magellanic type barred spiral galaxy in Sculptor - IAS Remote Dec 2022 - LHaRGB v1

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NGC 55 - Magellanic type barred spiral galaxy in Sculptor - IAS Remote Dec 2022 - LHaRGB v1, 



    
        

            Martin Junius
NGC 55 - Magellanic type barred spiral galaxy in Sculptor - IAS Remote Dec 2022 - LHaRGB v1
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NGC 55 - Magellanic type barred spiral galaxy in Sculptor - IAS Remote Dec 2022 - LHaRGB v1

Acquisition details

Dates:
Dec. 11, 2022
Frames:
Chroma Blue 36 mm: 31×120(1h 2′) (gain: 56.00) -10°C bin 1×1
Chroma Green 36 mm: 27×120(54′) (gain: 56.00) -10°C bin 1×1
Chroma H-alpha 8nm Bandpass 36 mm: 36×300(3h) (gain: 56.00) -10°C bin 1×1
Chroma Lum 36 mm: 59×120(1h 58′) (gain: 56.00) -10°C bin 1×1
Chroma Red 36 mm: 29×120(58′) (gain: 56.00) -10°C bin 1×1
Integration:
7h 52′
Darks:
13
Flats:
12
Bias:
100
Avg. Moon age:
17.77 days
Avg. Moon phase:
90.09%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale:
1.00
Temperature:
16.00

Basic astrometry details

Astrometry.net job: 6819794

RA center: 00h15m00s.7

DEC center: -39°1254

Pixel scale: 0.675 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: 178.591 degrees

Field radius: 0.625 degrees

Resolution: 5478x3798

File size: 8.5 MB

Locations: IAS Observatory Hakos, Hakos, Namibia

Data source: Own remote observatory

Remote source: Non-commercial independent facility

Description

IAS - International Amateuersternwarte e.V. - Hakos Observatory, Namibia

NGC 55
Magellanic type barred spiral galaxy in Sculptor
IAS remote telescope "Lukas"

Dates 2022-12-11 2022-12-12 2022-12-15 2022-12-16 lumped on 2022-12-11 (quite a tedious process to enter *all* exposure details)

This is a sort of first light for the new setup with a 10" Newton replacing the Epsilon 160.

Also a first is using BlurXTerminator as part of the image processing in PixInsight. Seems like this plain excellent plugin will make it in my toolset after the trial phase.

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