Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Hydra (Hya)  ·  Contains:  M 83  ·  NGC 5236
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Southern Pinwheel. M83, Andrew Lockwood
Southern Pinwheel. M83
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Southern Pinwheel. M83

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Southern Pinwheel. M83

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15 million light years away and part of the Centarus collection. M83 has outperformed other spirals in terms of supernovae, and the strange distribution of mass around it's nucleus has led people to suggest that there are two centres of mass. The bright blue suggests a lot of starburst activity and the dark lanes and HII regions are nicely picked out.

This is about 12 hours all up over two nights.

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Description: Softened the decon to take the edge off the star cores, and added some saturation.

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Southern Pinwheel. M83, Andrew Lockwood

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