Wednesday, 31 March 2010
A newly repaired Andor camera was put back to work in late March when student Auriol Heary took the first light images with the camera at the back of the Zadko Telescope.
Accompanying this article is a
later image
of the fine galaxy of Messier 83 (M83) with annotated labels of non-stellar objects in the same image.
M83 is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 15 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. It is one of the closest and brightest barred spiral galaxies in the sky.
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