Messier 83, the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy by Rick-Stevenson

A beautiful barred spiral galaxy in Hydra. Scope: Planewave CDK17 @ f/6.8 = 2939mm FL Mount: Paramount ME Camera: SBIG STXL-11002/AOX Filters: Astrodon LRGB gen II, 3nm NB Image scale: 0.63 arcsec/pixel Exposures: 14x1200s R, 13x1200s G, 15x1200s B, 21x1200s L, 5x1800s x2 Ha (23.5 hours) Processing: PixInsight 1.8.5 Acquisition: Martin Pugh, Heavens Mirror Observatory Processing: Rick Stevenson https://flic.kr/p/25rtjYm