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Sculptor Galaxy, Spiral, The Silver Coin Galaxy ( NGC253 ) Size: 28' x 7' Magnitude: 7.10 RA: 00:47:34 DEC: 00:17:32 Best obeserved in September at midnight Scope: 8-inch Newtonian on Samson equatorial mount Imaging Method: prime focus Camera/CCD: Cookbook 245 Location: Newcastle, Australia Condition: Seeing: 8 / 10 - Transparency: 7.5 / 10 Exposure: 5 x 120 second exposures stacked (total exposure time 10 minutes) Description: images stacked with photoshop, no filters used Photographer: Paul Mayo, 06.01.2005 photo ranked: 5.76 with 21 votes (not realtime, last updated: 13.11.2009 12:50) References to more Photos: More of Sculptor Galaxy, Spiral, The Silver Coin Galaxy ( NGC253 )   More of Cookbook 245   More of 8-inch Newtonian on Samson equatorial mount   More of Paul Mayo   More of prime focus If you want to judge the quality of that photo, please... (Be fair and take into account that faint and small objects are more difficult than bright and big ones!) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] © 1997 - 2010 astroscopic labs for design and web programming - photo or article is copyrighted by the photographer or author, respectively