M83 - Southern Pinwheel Galaxy

[Jen]

M83 - Southern Pinwheel Galaxy <3
Hi everyone 🤗🤗🤗 I’m finally getting a little better at this imaging stuff so I thought I would finally post one of my pics in here hehehe

A barred spiral galaxy approximately 15million light-years away from us in the constellation Hydra :)
54x4minute subs @ISO1600 with a canon 1100D on a skywatcher ED/120 - Processed in Startools.

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[Geoff45]

Nice start Jen. Colours are good and the detail is there

[Jen]

Thanks Geoff 🤗🤗 I’ve been imaging for four years now and I’m just starting to get a little bit more confident in thinking I may now actually sort of know what I’m doing hahaha 😜😜😜😈😈😈

[Anth10]

Your energy, enthusiasm and passion for this most amazing pastime is represented splendidly in this top image of our sister galaxy.
Awesome capture Jen!
Anth

[miki63au]

Hi Jen,


Great pic :thumbsup:

Very sharp and noise free. Subs/total exp?

Is your 1100D has a Peltier cooler? Full spectrum mod?



Mick

[Jen]

:thanx::thanx:

[Jen]

Thanks Mick 🤗
My camera isn’t cooled ( I wish it was though, imaging in the summer time really sux ) but yes it is full spectrum modified :thumbsup:
:D

[PeterSEllis]

Hi Jen,
That has come out very nicely indeed, and your tracking is good. I eventually changed over from a canon 1100D to a CCD OSC , when one hot summer night, my darks came out as reds. As time goes on, you will find that you just keep getting better and better at it.

Cheers
Peter

[Jen]

Thank you Peter 🤗
yeah imaging in the summer is not fun at all 😣 my poor dslr does struggle.

[Placidus]

Looking really good.

Nice colour and contrast. A few faint tiny friends visible in the background too.

Keep them coming!

[Sunfish]

Very cool. Those galaxies are just so faint when I catch one. Great to see one in full colour. Such a lot of dedicated time.

[gregbradley]

That's a lovely widefield image of M83. Very good processing.

Greg.

[Jen]

Thank you all for your nice comments 🤗🤗

[Atmos]

You've got yourself a nice galaxy shot there! It is actually quite nice seeing it embedded into a wider and larger starry background than usual; not taken with a longer focal length newtonian and cropped in :P

[Jen]

Thanks Colin 🤗🤗🤗

[Stevec35]

Nothing to criticise there. That's a very nice wide field M83 with good colour.

Cheers

Steve

[Jen]

:thanx::thanx:

[Placidus]

Bravo! Heartening to see such a splendid result with sensible equipment and double quick time. Nicely processed.

[Jen]

:thumbsup: thank you

[Ryderscope]

That is great Jen. You should be very please with the result.

[Jen]

Thanks everyone 🤗🤗🤗🤗

[cometcatcher]

Wonderful image Jen! I bet you're loving the obs.

[Jen]

Thanks Kevin :D
Yep I’m loving the obs :D
It’s so nice not to have to set it up and unpack it all the time woohoo :P:P