Imaged on 10/28/05
Camera: Starlight Xpress H9 Camera
Scope: Takahashi FSQ 106 Refractor
Mount: Piggybacked on a Meade LX200
Autoguider: SXV autoguiding camera
attached to an 8" LX200 OTA
Exposure: Lum = 60m; RGB= 20 min ea.
Site: Anza Borrego Desert
Temp: 53 degrees; light wind, good seeing.
The Sculptor Galaxy is 10 million ly away.
Studies show NGC253 to be rotating at
360 miles/second and is moving toward
us at a rate of 42 miles/second (blue shift).
