Thanks everyone
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Les thanks so much for the description of the object.Awesome so I was seeing a dust lane.
I think I may have noticed some sort of bright regions in ngc 55.I might have to go revisit it.
So Is all the dust in ngc 253 obscuring its true identity as a barred spiral or is it it our line of sight therefore making it look foreshortened?
cheers Orestis