More remote data from 2025. NGC 131, NGC 134 and Eta Sculptoris.
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Continue readingNGC 131, NGC 134 and Eta Sculptoris
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Sculptor Pinwheel Galaxy
Difficult processing with these data: separating stars and galaxy with StarXTerminator doesn’t work well here, too many artefacts. So all the stretching was done with the starfull images, with just a bit of star reduction on L, to preserve the many little, mostly blue stars in the arms of NGC 300.
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Continue readingA New Silver Dollar
[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.
Continue readingSculptor Dwarf Galaxy [Update]
New data from the IAS remote telescope, a lesser known object, the Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy.
Details at Astrobin (new revision).
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