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Originally Posted by Peter.M
Hi guys and girls, just thought I would ask if anyone else had this nomenclature issue. A few weeks ago I took an image of what I belived to be the sculptor galaxy, I aligned the scope and used the tour function to go to what was named the sculptor. After I took the images I processed the image and compaired it to many others. The colour was off and the picture I took looked wierd, I put it down to having a bad night or something. Then today I was looking at pictures of galaxies and I found one that looked like my image, ngc 55.
Turns out that synscans controler points to ngc 55 when you select sculptor galaxy, I was compairing my image to ngc 253 which I commonly see as refered to as Sculptor galaxy. Tonight I am imaging the real sculptor galaxy and I will post both the images later.
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I suppose that's the problem with popular names - I always heard NGC55 referred to as the 'cigar galaxy' and NGC253 as 'the silver coin', and never heard of either referred to as 'The Sculptor Galaxy', and they're both in Sculptor, and both great visual objects, so it wouldn't be fair to single either of them out! There is the Sculptor Dwarf, but you'd be doing pretty well to spot that one. Since they're not formal names it's up to the guy who programmed your DSC. Does the scope point to the right object when you use the NGC number?
cheers,
Andrew.
(NGC 55)
