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About:
Big, bright, and beautiful, spiral galaxy M83 lies a mere twelve million light-years away, near the southeastern tip of the very long constellation Hydra. M83 is popularly known as the Southern Pinwheel for its pronounced spiral arms. But the wealth of reddish star forming regions found near the edges of the arms' thick dust lanes, also suggest another popular moniker for M83, the Thousand-Ruby Galaxy. Arcing near the top of the novel cosmic portrait lies M83's northern stellar tidal stream, debris from the gravitational disruption of a smaller, merging satellite galaxy. The faint, elusive star stream was found in the mid 1990s by enhancing photographic plates. [Text from APOD]



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CREDITS Team by John Kasianowicz, Scott Johnson, Rick Stevens, Josh Balsam, Mike Selby, Leonardo Orazi
Optics: OS RiDK 400
Mount: 10 Micron GM3000
Camera: FLI PL16803
Filters: Astrodon LRGB
Guiding Systems: Unguided
Dates/Times: March / April 2019
Location: Chile - El Sauce - Atacama
Exposure Details: L:R:G:B => 592:183:162:117 => (74x8):(61x3):(54x3):(39x3) color Bin2 [num x minutes]
Cooling Details: -30°C
Acquisition: TSX, Voyager
Processing: CCDStack2+, PS CC 2019
Mean FWHM: 3.18
SQM-L: ?