Wallpaper author:
Carl Kwadrat
28 Mar 2021
Sculptor Galaxy NGC 253
The Sculptor Galaxy has roughly the size and mass of our Milky Way Galaxy. It is about 11.5 million light years from Earth. It is a star burst galaxy with a much higher rate of star formation than the Milky Way Galaxy. NGC 253 has a supermassive black hole of about 5 million solar masses at its center.
A Pro Data set was used as the imaging data source for my. The data was acquire on CHI-1 by Nik Syzmanec. The data set contained is as follows.
Luminance 2x600s
Red 2x600s
Green 2 x600s
Blue 2 x600s
Dataset from which the image was processed
Sculptor Galaxy
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- Type of target............................................................................................................................Galaxy
- Camera............................................................................................................................FLI ProLine PL9000
- Target coordinates............................................................................................................................RA 11.88808 Dec -25.28881
- Hemisphere............................................................................................................................Southern
- Telescope location............................................................................................................................Chile
- Transient event............................................................................................................................No
- Observed on............................................................................................................................20 Jul 2020 - 30 Oct 2022
Filter | Avg Exp (s) | Total Exposure | Subframes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luminance | 500 | 1h40m | 12 |
| Red | 600 | 2h | 12 |
| Green | 545 | 1h40m | 11 |
| Blue | 764 | 2h20m | 11 |