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August - September 2014

NGC 253

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The Sculptor Galaxy, also known as the Silver Coin or Silver Dollar Galaxy, NGC 253, is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor. The Sculptor Galaxy is a starburst galaxy, which means that it is currently undergoing a period of intense star formation.

A weighted average of the most reliable distance estimates gives a distance of 11.4 ± 0.7 million light years

This represents 5 hours Luminence and 4 hours each of R, G and B. RGB is binned x2. Taken with STX16803 on a CDK12.5


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