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01-Oct-2016 Andy Casely

NGC300 - 4 hours

Nerriga, NSW

One of my favourite targets in spring is this galaxy. This year I've added 2 hours with my 200mm scope in poor seeing, to 2 hours last year with my 150mm scope in better seeing, and got a good bit extra depth and definition.

This is a nearby spiral galaxy 6 million light-years away in Sculptor - blue spiral arms with many knots of nebulae and clusters, hanging behind foreground stars of the Milky Way. It has quite a low surface brightness, the pale light is spread across more than half the apparent diameter of the Moon in the sky. To its left are three much more distant galaxy clusters with some of the galaxies showing interactions. The distant cluster at the 10 o'clock position is actually a pair of colliding galaxy clusters!

Canon EOS 60D
47 x 5 minutes (27 @ 200mm & 20 @ 150mm), ISO800, EOS 60D, darks, flats and bias subtracted. 150mm & 200mm f/5 Newtonians on HEQ5 pro mount, OAG & StarShoot Autoguider. Stacked and processed in PixInsight and Photoshop. full exif

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