Photo Display Photo ID 86 Click On Image to Open Full Size in a New Tab Title The Sculptor Galaxy Caption Taken at Columbus on 10/18/2014 Object Name Sculptor Galaxy Messier Desig M n/a NGC Desig NGC 253 Other Desigs Silver Dollar Galaxy, Silver Coin Right Ascension 0Hr 47' 33.00" Declination -25° 17' 18.00" Magnitude 8.00 Scope Used C14 with focal reducer Camera Used Canon 350D Photo Notes This was taken using the C14 with two focal reducers, double-stacked. The resulting image suffered from significant coma and vignetting. The center of the frame wasn't too bad, however. This image is 5 subframes of 300s each stacked in DeepSky Stacker and post-processed in Photoshop using a pseudo-luminance frame. Object Type Spiral Galaxy Distance (ly) 11.4 Mly Constellation Sculptor Return to List