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M83 - The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy
A barred spiral galaxy about 15 million light-years away in Hydra, on the border with Centaurus. The nickname derives from its resemblance to the Northern Pinwheel Galaxy, M101.

M83 - The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy

A barred spiral galaxy about 15 million light-years away in Hydra, on the border with Centaurus. The nickname derives from its resemblance to the Northern Pinwheel Galaxy, M101.




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Filename:M83-20210403-LRGB2.jpg
Album name:27telp / Galaxies
Location and Date:OCA site near Anza, California, 4/3/2021
Equipment:William Optics FLT-132 refractor, Astro-Physics 1200GTO mount, ZWO ASI1600mm CMOS camera, Mini-Borg 50 guide scope, Starlight Express Ultrastar guide camera
Settings:15 exposures @180 seconds each in Luminance; 12 exposures @300 seconds each in Red, Green, and Blue, all bin 1x1
Notes:Software: Capture, Sequence Generator Pro; guiding, PHD2; Calibration and stacking, PixInsight 1.8.9; Final processing - PixInsight 1.8.9 and Photoshop CC
Filesize:1315 KiB
Date added:Aug 01, 2022
Dimensions:1952 x 1540 pixels
Displayed:230 times
Color Space:Uncalibrated
EXIF Offset:404
EXIF Version:version 2.31
Image Description:A barred spiral galaxy about 15 million light-years away in Hydra, on the border with Centaurus. The nickname derives from its resemblance to the Northern Pinwheel Galaxy, M101.
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Software:Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 11.4.1 (Windows)
X Resolution:240 dots per ResolutionUnit
Y Resolution:240 dots per ResolutionUnit
IPTC Copyright:Copyright J. L. Floyd 2022
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