CartographerEvery268 on November 9, 2025 1:25 pm NGC 247 and Burbidge’s Chain of galaxies 11.1M light years away in the Cetus constellation, gravitationally bound to the Sculptor Galaxy. -Telescope: Celestron 9.25” SCT @ f/6.3 w/reducer -Integration: 8x300s in Bortle 2 (thanks Dew) -Camera: ZWO ASI 2600MC @ -10*/100g -Guiding: Celestron off-axis guider w/174MM mini -Mount: Celestron CGX -Control: ASIAir Plus -Processing: PixInsight (stacking, solving, cropping, background extraction, spectro color calibration, BlurX, StarX, statistical stretch, star stretch, curves, NoiseX, pixel math)
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NGC 247 and Burbidge’s Chain of galaxies
11.1M light years away in the Cetus constellation, gravitationally bound to the Sculptor Galaxy.
-Telescope: Celestron 9.25” SCT @ f/6.3 w/reducer
-Integration: 8x300s in Bortle 2 (thanks Dew)
-Camera: ZWO ASI 2600MC @ -10*/100g
-Guiding: Celestron off-axis guider w/174MM mini
-Mount: Celestron CGX
-Control: ASIAir Plus
-Processing: PixInsight (stacking, solving, cropping, background extraction, spectro color calibration, BlurX, StarX, statistical stretch, star stretch, curves, NoiseX, pixel math)