SUNSET: 
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Photographer:
Daniel Stern
Location of Photo:
Rio Hurtado, Chile
Date/Time of photo:
April 2025
Equipment:
CDK-17 / L-500 / Moravian C5-100
Description:
About twice as small as the Milky Way, Messier 83 is located in the southern constellation Hydra (the Water Snake). It is also known as NGC 5236 and as the Southern Pinwheel galaxy. Its distance is about 15 million light-years away. It’s a prominent barred spiral galaxy and has a double nucleus, revealed through Infrared observations, suggesting a past merger. It has also had six supernova events in the past one-hundred years.
