John Chumack took this picture of Spiral Galaxy NGC-253, which is located in the constellation of Sculptor. The telescope was a Takahashi Epsilon 250mm and ST8XE CCD camera, on a Software Bisque Paramount ME, taken on Mount Joy, New Mexico, New Mexico Skies Resort. John operated the telescope remotely from Dayton, Ohio using Arnie Rosner's Rent-A-Scope setup. John has been imaging the sky for 2 decades, and has an amazing collection of pictures at his website: Galactic Images. If you're an amateur astrophotographer, visit the Universe Today forum and post your pictures, we might feature it in the newsletter."> John Chumack took this picture of Spiral Galaxy NGC-253, which is located in the constellation of Sculptor. The telescope was a Takahashi Epsilon 250mm and ST8XE CCD camera, on a Software Bisque Paramount ME, taken on Mount Joy, New Mexico, New Mexico Skies Resort. John operated the telescope remotely from Dayton, Ohio using Arnie Rosner's Rent-A-Scope setup. John has been imaging the sky for 2 decades, and has an amazing collection of pictures at his website: Galactic Images. If you're an amateur astrophotographer, visit the Universe Today forum and post your pictures, we might feature it in the newsletter."> John Chumack took this picture of Spiral Galaxy NGC-253, which is located in the constellation of Sculptor. The telescope was a Takahashi Epsilon 250mm and ST8XE CCD camera, on a Software Bisque Paramount ME, taken on Mount Joy, New Mexico, New Mexico Skies Resort. John operated the telescope remotely from Dayton, Ohio using Arnie Rosner's Rent-A-Scope setup. John has been imaging the sky for 2 decades, and has an amazing collection of pictures at his website: Galactic Images. If you're an amateur astrophotographer, visit the Universe Today forum and post your pictures, we might feature it in the newsletter.">

Astrophoto: NGC-253 Spiral Galaxy by John Chumack

By Fraser Cain - February 11, 2005 at 6:24 AM UTC | Extragalactic

Amateur photographer

John Chumack

took this picture of Spiral Galaxy NGC-253, which is located in the constellation of Sculptor. The telescope was a Takahashi Epsilon 250mm and ST8XE CCD camera, on a Software Bisque Paramount ME, taken on Mount Joy, New Mexico, New Mexico Skies Resort. John operated the telescope remotely from Dayton, Ohio using Arnie Rosner's

Rent-A-Scope

setup. John has been imaging the sky for 2 decades, and has an amazing collection of pictures at his website:

Galactic Images

. If you're an amateur astrophotographer, visit the

Universe Today forum

and post your pictures, we might feature it in the newsletter.

Fraser Cain

Fraser Cain

Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today, founding the website in March 1999. He's also the co-host of Astronomy Cast.