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M83 Southern Pinwheel Galaxy under a near full moon
Took on M83 last night with a 90% Waxing moon lighting up the sky and my backyard
Seeing wasn’t too bad towards the south east over near the southern cross but the rest of night sky was fairly washed out
8” f5 Bintel newt on an EQ6-R Mount
Orion 60mm guide scope with a ZWOASI120MM S guide camera
Canon 600D stock with a home made cooling fan ( No Filters )
ISO 800
45 x 3 minute dithered guided subs
25 x darks
PHD2 guiding around 1.00 arc sec error
Medium dither every second sub
Tracking and Goto EQMOD , StellariumScope and Stellarium
Frame , focus and capture BYEOS
Stacked in DSS
Processed in Startools V1.4
Started around 10pm and finished up at 2.30 am ( moon was still descending at 25 degrees in the west )
Thanks for looking, comments most welcome
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