M83 32hrs, planewave CDK 14

[benklerk]

Messier 83 also known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 15 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. It is one of the closest and brightest barred spiral galaxies in the sky, making it visible with binoculars.

Planewave CDK 14"
10 micron GM3000
QHY600M
total time = 32 hrs over 5 filters

[leon]

Wow that is just awesome Ben so crisp and loaded with millions of Stars and a few extra Galaxies thrown in for good measure, well done indeed.

Leon

[Leo.G (Leo)]

That is a stunning image Ben!

[benklerk]

Thanks Leon and Leo


I'm quite happy with the amount of detail I could get. Now comes the fun part of exploring other objects and see what I can pull from them.

[AstroJason (Jason)]

That is really nice Ben, lots of pop with those Ha regions!

[alpal]

That's great Ben,
what a perfect picture.

cheers
Allan

[benklerk]

Thanks Jason and Allan

I did spend quite a few days working on the image to get it to the point to where it is now.

I just wished seeing was a bit better when I took the images. I know during winter the jet steam is much stronger. My HFR was 2 on the good end, to almost 4 on the worse end.

Ben

[gregbradley]

A wonderful first image.
Congrats.
Greg

[benklerk]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

A wonderful first image.
Congrats.
Greg

Thanks Greg

Very happy with the CDK, it was almost point and shoot.

Ben

[TrevorW]

Very nice image, what is the red dot in the middle left of the image ???

[benklerk]

Originally Posted by TrevorW

Very nice image, what is the red dot in the middle left of the image ???

Hi Trevor

Very little information is known about it. But I think it’s part of M83.Even SIMBAD has very little information about it. If you go here you can see the nebula in much higher resolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messie...rlab2429a).jpg.

Ben