M83 Southern Pinwheel, Bedok South

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PETER LOO
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M83 Southern Pinwheel, Bedok South

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M83 Southern Pinwheel Galaxy) 03 May 2014, Bedok South field, TSAPO906C, Canon 500D, ISO 1600 2 mins X 20, GPD2 50mm & SSAG guided, MaximDL captured in RAW to Disk (CR2), convert TIFF via Canon s/w for better color de-bayer result. Averaged Dark & Bias subtrated & then combined. applied Laplacian sharp to improve image slightly.

ImageM83 Crop 03 May 2014 J by Astro shots & stuff, on Flickr
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Re: M83 Southern Pinwheel, Bedok South

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Nice shot Peter

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Thanks Kochu, i like your M101, the real Pinwheel galaxy, so bright & so much details ..
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Very nice image! :)
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Very nice peter! Good target to image, very bright!
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Hi Jun Wei & Kelvin, thanks, yes Kelvin M83 has a visual brightness of 7.6 & good surface brightness of 12.8, much brighter than most of the other Galaxies ..
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Woahh...nice details on the spiral arms! Good job :D
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Beautiful! [smilie=good-job.gif]
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Thanks Ivan, i recon that you go Kranji for AP too, do you find it misty & humid over there ? I went to recce the place twice, misty ..
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Yes. The trees do produce quite a bit of fog. Last night seemed especially bad. But the place is dark, so I guess it compensates for it...
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