M83 – Southern Pinwheel Galaxy
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- Target Information
- M83 the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy in the southern constellation of Hydra. M83 is located 15 million light years from us and is like our own Galaxy, the Milky Way. Using a small telescope M83 will appear as a faint fuzzy patch and with a larger telescope a bright core and faint spiral arms will be visible.
- Date
- 16th April 2005
- Camera
- SBIG 2000XM -20C
- Guiding
- SBIG AO-7 10Hz
- Filters
- SBIG CFW8A
- Exposure
- Total Time: 9 hours
- Luminance: 180 minutes
- Red: 120 minutes
- Green: 120 minutes
- Blue: 120 minutes
- Telescope
- Meade LX200GPS 10″ UHTC F10 Reduced to F6.3
- Processing
- CCDSoft V5, MaximDL & Photoshop
- Notes
- First Photo with LX200GPS and F6.3 Focal Reducer
- Target Location
- Right Ascension: 13 : 37.0 (hours:minutes)
- Declination: -29 : 52 (degrees:minutes)
- Visual Brightness: 7.6 (magnitude)
- Apparent Dimension: 11 x 10 (arc minutes)
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