Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Sculptor (Scl)  ·  Contains:  HD4555  ·  HD4572  ·  HD4631  ·  NGC 253  ·  Sculptor Filament  ·  Sculptor galaxy  ·  Silver Coin
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NGC253, Georg N. Nyman
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NGC253

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NGC253

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NGC253, often called "Sculptor Galaxy" or "Silvercoin Galaxy" is a very structured galaxy, about 11,5Mio LJ distance from Earth with a diameter of about 90.000 LJ. In it´s center, there is most likely and super massive black hole with an estimated mass of about 5 Mio sunmasses.

This image was taken with a CDK24 operated by Telescope.Live and with a FLI-PL9000 camera equipped with LRGB filters - in total about 7h40min exposure time.

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Description: slightly color corrected...on a better monitor

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NGC253, Georg N. Nyman