The southern pinwheel from the UK.

This is the southern pinwheel galaxy, M83, taken from the northern latitude of 52½ºN. It was under 7º above the southeastern horizon when I got the 44 images of 30 second exposure. Using RAW mode on the modified Canon, and having gathered plenty of flats of darks has enabled me to divide out the light pollution background pretty well. A bit of gradient removal and digital processing gave me this reasonable image taken through a lot of atmosphere.