|
Object |
M83-
(AKA)
The southern Pin Wheel |
|
Info |
M83 is
a large face on spiral galaxy of Mag. 8 located in the southern
constelation of Hydra.. It has a very bright nucleus surrounded by
heavy dust lanes where evidence of rich star forming regions can be seen. |
|
Date |
Lum-8th/
3/ 06 & RGB 24/ 4/ 06 |
|
Location |
BayTop
Observatory- Streaky Bay South Australia |
|
Instrument |
Vixen VC200L working @ f9/
1800 FL 0.77arcsec/pixel |
|
Mount |
Celestron CI700 controlled by a Mel
Bartels Goto Control System
with Vexta PK264m-01b motors with a pulley and belt system |
|
Camera (CCD) |
Starlight
Xpress HX916 monochrome CCD with Hm, made
filter slider |
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Exposures |
L:
60' R:30' G:30' B:30'
[5' sub exposures all unbinned]
No dark frames removed. |
|
Guiding |
Orion
80ED refractor F7.5 with a Starlight Xpress MX515 CCD.
Mounted via a side by side accessory plate. |
|
Filters |
Astronomik
typeII clr RGB filter set |
|
Notes/ Conditions |
Conditions- Taking the lum conditions
started out average and ended poor. Taking the RGB's conditions were
fair then fine upper level cloud moved in spoiling the last sub exposures.
Wasn't happy with the colour after gradient removal. Image reduced to 85%
of original. |
