Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Hydra (Hya)  ·  Contains:  M 83  ·  NGC 5236  ·  Southern Pinwheel Galaxy
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M83, The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, Chris Plonski
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M83, The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy

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M83, The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy

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M83 is also known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy due to some resemblance to M101, the actual pinwheel galaxy. M83 is located at the border of the constellations Hydra and Centaurus and is about 15 million light years away. At my location, the object barely rose to 25 degrees above the horizon making this a challenging object to capture and process from the northern hemisphere, since the atmosphere is about 40 times thicker at the horizon as it is looking straight up. so at 25 degrees above the horizon, the atmospheric disturbances cause the image to lose a lot of detail.

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