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M83 - The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy Wide Field, Gabriel R. Santos (grsotnas)
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M83 - The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy Wide Field

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M83 - The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy Wide Field, Gabriel R. Santos (grsotnas)
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M83 - The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy Wide Field

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M83 is a beautiful galaxy, fairly large in apparent size, barred spiral galaxy, distant some 15 million light-years from Earth, in Hydra. It is one of the most beautiful galaxies to be seen in the Southern Hemisphere, along the Magellanic Clouds and Centaurus A. From my location it is faintly visible in 7x50 binoculars and also as a round spiral fuzzy on a 150mm newtonian.

Background is quite noisy, as my exposure time simply is was not enough to pull out as much detail as I've wanted. Furthermore, the image scale for this object is just off to me, however, not owning a (proper for astro) telescope, I could only snap this galaxy on a camera lens, that provides too much of a wide field. Therefore, I'm not completely satisfied with this image. Will probably try again with longer exposures to show more background galaxies (if any) next season. Slightly cropped from full size image, about 88% of original frame, for better centering of the galaxy and to "hide" vignetting issues on the corners. Processing as usual, with LR, DSS and PS CC (+HLVG and Nik Collection plugins).

Constructive criticism, comments and suggestions are more than welcome in the comments section. Thank's for taking your time to look at this image.

Taken from Rural Skies (Bortle 3-4; NELM ~6.2), from Cristina, MG, Brazil (22ºS latitude).

Date and Time: April 9th, 2016, at 23:30h (UTC-3)

Camera: Unmodded Canon T4i/650D, at ISO 800

Lens: Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8, at 200mm, operated at f/3.5

Exposure Detail: 20x120s, total 40min

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