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M 83 · Galaxy · Hydra

Southern Pinwheel Galaxy

Also known as NGC 5236 · ESO 444-081 · PGC 48082

Shot with Celestron EdgeHD 8 with 0.7× reducer ×1 · Dwarf 3 ×1 · Seestar S50 Pro ×1

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Type

Galaxy

Constellation

Hydra

Position (J2000)

13h 37m 01s · −29° 51′ 55″

Discovered

by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1752

Pictures

3

Typical integration

5 h

Magnitude

7.21

visual

Size

13.6′ × 13.2′

Distance

~15,000,000 ly

Best months

Mar–May

Catalogue data from OpenNGC by Mattia Verga, CC BY-SA 4.0. Distances, discoverers and common names from Wikidata, CC0.