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M83 - The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy

Published in Astronomy Now magazine July 2018

 

Published in Amateur Astrophotography Magazine Issue 71 December 2019

 

Messier 83 (also known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, M83 or NGC 5236) is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 15 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. It is one of the closest and brightest barred spiral galaxies in the sky,

 

14h15m hours total integration (27x900s luminance, 10x600s for each RGB channel, 8x1200s Ha), Alcalalí, Spain on 1-17/5/2018

 

APM TMB 152 F8 LZOS, 10 Micron GM2000HPS, QSI6120ws8

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