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A New Silver Dollar

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NGC 253 – Sculptor Galaxy – LHaRGB v2

[Updated image]

Has been quite a while since I last imaged this large, beautiful spiral galaxy in the southern constellation of Sculptor, NGC 253 known as the Silver Dollar Galaxy, Silber Coin Galaxy, or just Sculptor Galaxy.

A lot of H-alpha data has been used, thus the rendition is different from the DSLR attempts back in 2016.

More Details at Astrobin.

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