Galaxy Hunting

[hjw]

Over the last few weeks I have been capturing galaxies in the M83/Centaurus region. And while I realize that the SW80ED is not the right scope for it and that I should do guiding for this, I had a ball  .

The first one is C83 (NGC4945) with NGC4976 at the bottom.

The next one is Centaurus A (NGC5128).

What had me really excited were a few fuzzies on the edge of the image which came as a surprise (NGC5090 and NGC5091) and something that I didn't think was a star but didn't show up in Stellarium (?):

NGC5102 is a diffuse galaxy and it shows in the image (no detail whatsoever )

And last but not least M83 the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy (love it, but it need more data - so work in process). Problem is at the moment it is well past midnight when it gets above the tree line.

Considering that it was only 5 months ago that I saw my first galaxy ever...

Thanks for looking

HJ

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Lovely result

[laser_jock99]

Nice group- like the Centaurus A.