NGC 5253

RA 10 28 27.3

Dec + 12 42 13.3

Observation on Faulkes South 15:00 27/02/09

H alpha

30 seconds

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H alpha

120 seconds

Image

 

I did not choose very good settings for any of the exposures on the 27th so the image links above and the image below are not the original JPEGs automatically produced by FT but are the result of photoshopping the FITS data.

3253halpha.jpg

H alpha, while brilliant for nebulae would appear to be too narrow to usefully image faint galaxies