Sculptor Galaxy NGC 253
Sculptor Galaxy NGC 253
The Sculptor Galaxy has roughly the size and mass of our Milky Way Galaxy. It is about 11.5 million light years from Earth. It is a star burst galaxy with a much higher rate of star formation than the Milky Way Galaxy. NGC 253 has a supermassive black hole of about 5 million solar masses at its center.
A Pro Data set was used as the imaging data source for my. The data was acquire on CHI-1 by Nik Syzmanec. The data set contained is as follows.
Luminance 2x600s
Red 2x600s
Green 2 x600s
Blue 2 x600s
A Pro Data set was used as the imaging data source for my. The data was acquire on CHI-1 by Nik Syzmanec. The data set contained is as follows.
Luminance 2x600s
Red 2x600s
Green 2 x600s
Blue 2 x600s
SPECIFICATIONS
Telescope
CHI-1 PlaneWave CDK24
Camera
FLI Proline PL9000
Location
El Sauce Observatory, Chile
Date of observation
July 20, 2020
Filters
Luminance, Red, Green, and Blue
Processing
APP, PixInsight, Affinity Photo
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