M83 a.k.a Southern Pin Wheel Galaxy

M83 a.k.a Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, or NGC 5236. Barred spiral galaxy ~15 mil ly away on the borders of Hydra and Centaurus. One of the closest and brightest barred spiral galaxies in the sky. The "Southern Pinwheel" nickname derives from its resemblance to the M101 a.ka. Pinwheel Galaxy.

33h 40m LRGB + H alpha image, H alpha blended into Red, Combining two datasets from iTelescope.net and telescope.live

iTelescope.net dataset is from a Planewave CDK with an SBIG 16803 camera. Frames

Luminance 22x900s, 04x1200s

Red 12x900s

Blue 12x900s

Green 10x900s

H alpha 5x1800s

Telescope.live dataset is from CHI-1, a Planewave CDK24 with FLI PL 9000 camera and Astrodon filters. Frames

Luminance 16x600s

Red 26x300s, 14x600s

Green 26x300s, 13x600s

Blue 26x300s, 13x600s

Taken over Feb 2021 - Mar 2022.

Processed in AstroPixelProcessor and PixInsight.