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moonshinegnomie

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Thu Mar 21, 2024, 10:53 AM Mar 2024

M83 the southen pinwheel

I used a remote telescope in chile for 7.5 hours of data to process on the southern pinwheel galaxy. the galaxy is shaped similar to the milky way and is about 15 million light years away
just to the right of it are a couple of smaller galaxies (at least the look smaller from earth)
they are MUCH further away, eatimated at 600 million light years away
Imaged using RGB and L filters (the remote telescopes uses monochrome camera. the camera allows finer detail at the cost of requiring filters to create a color image


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M83 the southen pinwheel (Original Post) moonshinegnomie Mar 2024 OP
Wow, outstanding! Walleye Mar 2024 #1
Spectacular goings on up there and an absolutely stunning photo for us to see 🙏 Deuxcents Mar 2024 #2
A splendid photo! Lovely details. electric_blue68 Mar 2024 #3
Love it! HAB911 Mar 2024 #4
Fantastic! ShazzieB Mar 2024 #5
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