Seen in negative and enhanced luminance it is easier to appreciate the huge size of the very
faint extended halo around NGC 253, which in this deep exposure, stretches across 3/4 of a degree
of the sky or one and a half times the diameter of the full moon!

There is a lot of very faint Milky Way galactic cirrus dust evident in the area too

Please read about my galaxy discovery here: http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/162148414/original

The Feed, SBS Television piece: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaPYwg4U5Q0