M83 - Southern Pinwheel Galaxy

[split_city]

Collected most of this a few months ago. Tried for some more data recently but it's getting too close to the meridian and I tend to get flexure issues at this point in the sky, which probably relates to old tasco refractor which I'm using as a guide scope.

So this is just over 3hrs of data. Not sure about colour...maybe a tad too blue? I tried to bring out some colour in the stars but these are 10 minutes subs @ ISO800 so they appear to be saturated.

Details

Scope: 8" Newt

Camera: unmodded 400d

Exposures: 19x10mins @ ISO800 (total exposure time of 3hrs 10mins)

Hutech Light Pollution Suppression Filter

Lights, darks and flats stacked in DSS and processed in PS.

M83 (Southern Punwheel Galaxy) by split-city, on Flickr

[Naemeth]

That is an amazing picture, well done! There does seem to be a *bit* of blue, but it's really not much.

[bigal1]

Very nice image well done

[Keiran]

Now thats very impressive.

[Gina]

Great image - nice definition, dust lanes very clear - lovely

[Quatermass]

Great job lots of cool detail in there as well.