NGC253: The Sculptor Galaxy

NGC253: The Sculptor Galaxy




Conditions:

Date: 2021 10 31

Mount: Losmandy G11 + Gemini 1
Optic; Newtonian Telescope F/D=4 + flattener corrector
Focale: 800mm - Diameter:200mm Camera: ZWO ASI294 Pro + IR cut 2"
Site: Bois de Nefles Saint-Paul 55° 19'54"E / 20° 59'58"S
Seeing: Humidity + Light polution
Capture: 30 x 240 sec Temp: -1 deg
Guidind refractor 400mm + ZWO Asi178 (+-1.05" arc)(medium)
Pre processing Dark
Software: OS Ubuntu-Linux - Indi-Kstars-Ekos - PHD guiding - Siril - Gimp

Informations:
one of the brightest galaxies in the sky
Magnitude: 8
Distance: 90,000 light-years
discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1783

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