M83: Southern Pinwheel Galaxy (Galaxie du Moulinet austral)

M83: Southern Pinwheel Galaxy (Galaxie du Moulinet austral)




Conditions:

Date: 2020 05 26

Mount: Losmandy G11 + Gemini 1
Optic; Newtonian Telescope F/D=4 + flattener corrector
Focale: 800mm - Diameter:200mm Camera: ZWO ASI294 Pro + IR cut 2"
Site: Bois de Nefles Saint-Paul 55° 19'54"E / 20° 59'58"S
Seeing: Humidity + Light polution
Capture: 49 (best of 50) x 180 sec Temp: -12 deg
Guidind refractor 400mm + ZWO Asi178 (+-0.80" arc)(medium)
Pre processing Dark, Offset, flat
Software: OS Ubuntu-Linux - Oacapture - PHD guiding - Siril - Gimp

Informations:
a barred spiral galaxy
Magnitude: 7.5
Distance: 15 million light-years light-years
discovered by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille 1752

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