Just because the weather plays ball and I'm on a roll, here is another one: M83, the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy. Its 15 million light years away and one of the brightest galaxies in the southern sky. 61 frames at 180sec ISO 800. Stacked with DSS and processed in Photoshop.

Clear skies
HJ


Full resolution image here: M83 - Southern Pinwheel Galaxy - Imgur

Nice catch! The image shows a lot of Ha. What camera did you use, HJ?

Not quite as nice as your "Lovely Couple" but yeah... I'm happy with it. As usually, I use my K-30 (unmodified).

Seems your K-30 is quite sensitive to Ha. At the moment I experiment with my K3ii and a cheap 12 nm Ha filter with quite good results (at lest in my eyes). But I cpild only catch 4 hours of data in total yet because of the bad weather. I will do some more testing. I just found more old data of IC 405/410 that could make up a nice pano of the two with the actual Ha-data mixed into it.

Have a nice weekend with clear skies!
Pete

What scope you use?

Sorry, my bad! I used a Saxon 200DS (equivalent to a Skywatcher 200PDS just rebadged) on a SW HEQ5 mount. I use a SW ST80 as a guide scope with a ZWO ASI120MC guide camera. Imaging was done with the K-30.

Lovely, that.