M83 from ARO

[astronobob (Bob)]

Totaly breath-taking view from my little astro eyes

[Joshua Bunn (Joshua)]

1 vote for IOTW

[gvanhau (Geert)]

Here my

[cazza132 (Troy Casswell)]

That is amazing! Even picking up details with the galaxies in the background! The images coming from these sorts of scopes are just stunning! And every time I see this sort of work, I think more about buying some land out west and setting up a good scope when I retire! Love it. I'd like to see a full mosaic

[dvj (John)]

Now THAT's image scale!

[alpal]

Originally Posted by cazza132

That is amazing! Even picking up details with the galaxies in the background! The images coming from these sorts of scopes are just stunning! And every time I see this sort of work, I think more about buying some land out west and setting up a good scope when I retire! Love it. I'd like to see a full mosaic

Yes - me too but they ain't cheap:

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The PlaneWave Instruments CDK20 is a 20 inch (0.51 m) f/6.8 Corrected Dall-Kirkham Astrograph telescope. The CDK20 has a dual carbon-fiber truss design, with 3 cooling fans ejecting air from the back of the telescope. The CDK20 covers a 52 mm field of view without any field curvature, off-axis coma, or astigmatism. The instrument weight is 140 lbs (64 kg) and comes standard with a back plate retaining ring ready to accept the focuser of your choice.

[Shiraz (Ray)]

That is an outstanding image Eric - professional quality in all respects. Your remote site is delivering on seeing.

[LewisM]

Just jaw-dropping.

I think I need to move the family to SA

[Paul Haese]

Superb detail in the full res version. Saturation could be upped a little in my opinion but for the most part it is very nice. The background is a bit speckled and there is some ringing around stars that you might want to address. Some selective smoothing on the background would take care of most of the speckle or more data collection would work better.

I like the very round stars. BTW is this with the new mount or the PME?

[DJT (David)]

Beautiful image Eric. Just spent a happy 10 minutes swimming around in the full res. Very nice indeed.

[Peter Ward]

One of the most impressive M83's I've seen.

Nice one.

[Chris85 (Chris)]

Amazing! And as a new user to Maxim, I really appreciate your processing walk through

[Harel_Boren]

Very, very nice !!! One of the most interesting views I've ever seen of this object !
Cheers,
Harel

[atalas]

Fine work.

[kana]

Phwoar...incredible!