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M83 Southern Pinwheel Galaxy
Finally captured some reasonable data on M83 over the past couple of nights although outside ambient temperature was quite warm for this time of the year ( about 19 degrees) Doesn’t help the DSLR though trying to push longer subs to capture more detail , you get swamped with noise in the process
8” f5 Bintel newt on an EQ6-R Mount
Canon 600D stock with a Baader coma corrector and home made cooling fan ( reduced cameras sensor electronics by 5 degC )
Orion 60mm guide scope with helical focuser and ZWOASI120MM- S guide camera
ISO 800
50 x 5 minute dithered guided subs
25 x darks
PHD2 guiding at 0.80 to 0.90 arc sec error
Medium dithered each sub
Stacked in DSS
Processed in Startools V1.5
Original image size and cropped version
Comments most welcome
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