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Sculptor Pinwheel Galaxy

NGC 300

Telescope : Planewave CDK 24

Camera : Moravian C5A-100

Mount : Planewave L-600

Focal length : 3974mm

Fov : 38 x 29 arcmins

Image Scale : 0.39 arcsec/pixel

Observatory : Deep Sky Chile

Filters: Chroma

L 100x180s

R 100x180s G 100x180s B 100x180s

Ha 100x180s

Integration: 25h00m

RA:   0h 54m 54s

Dec :   -37° 40 34

cdk 600

One maybe excused to think at first glance that we are looking at the Triangulum Galaxy, but actually this is NGC 300, or the Sculptor Pinwheel Galaxy. NGC 300 lies in the constellation of Sculptor and is a spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way galaxy. Some of the bright blue specks in this image are young, massive stars called blue super giants while the pinks are from the radiation and strong stellar winds emitting from a population of bright and young stars just turned "on"……

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