| Constellation tour in Autumn |
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| Date & Time: | Nov 3 2021, from 21:43 to 21:50 JST(+0900) |
| Composed 4 shots with 2 minutes exposed | |
| Optical: | TAMRON 17-35mm Di OSD (f=35mm, stop: F4.0) |
| with Kenko Softon Clear & Starry Night filters | |
| Auto-guided with EYEBELL CD-1 portable Equatorial | |
| Digital Camera: | Canon EOS 6D (Remodeled) |
| Location: | Furudono town, Fukushima pref. |
| Camera Settings: | Recording Format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(5472×3648) |
| Sensitivity...ISO800 |
 Astroarts StellaNavigator |
A minor constellation of sculptor can be found just east of Fomalhaut, alpha PsA.
The constellation has only stars finer than fifth magnitude.
In 1763, Lacaille has established it with some constellations in the southern hemisphere.
Though the constellation has the Latin name of "Sculptor", it has translated to "Sculptor's studio" in English. The Sculptor is lying at the farthest region from the Milky Way. Say, the constellation is positioned around the Galactic South Pole. And it's the Coma Berenices occupying the opposite point in the celestial sphere, i.e., the Galactic North Pole. Both constellations contain plenty of outer galaxies because inner-Galactic gaseous matter doesn't obstruct faint light from them. Especially a middle-sized galaxy of NGC253 lying northern region in Sculptor can be enjoy through binoculars. This image has been cropped with an equivalent focal length of 50mm. |
Guide for Deep Sky Objects| NGC24 | ..... Small edge-on galaxy positioned near border to Cetus, 20 million ly away |
| NGC55 | ..... A large edge-on near the border to Phoenix, 4.2 million ly away |
| NGC131, NGC134 | .....Larger spiral galaxy and its companeon in central region, 59 million ly away |
| NGC253 | ..... Large-sized spiral galaxy in northern region |
| NGC288 | ..... Medium-scaled globular cluster at 2deg. SE of NGC253 |
| NGC300 | ..... Dimmed but large-scaled spiral galaxy in southern region, 7 millions ly away |
| NGC613 | ..... Medium-sized spiral in eastern edge, 65 million ly away |
| NGC7793 | ..... Large spiral galaxy in central region, 11 million ly away |
| IC5332 | .....10'-sized spiral galaxy in SW region, 39 million ly away |
| Cart Wheel Galaxy | ..... A famous colliding galactic pair lying in center of Sculptor. |
 Piscis Austrinus |
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