The spiral galaxy Messier 83 is located in the southern constellation Hydra and is also known as NGC 5236 and as the Southern Pinwheel galaxy. Its distance is about 15 million light-years. Being about twice as small as the Milky Way, its size on the sky is 11x10 arcmin. It was discovered by French astronomer Nicholas Louis de Lacaille in 1752.
The image was taken with the 1 meter telescope at Chilescope, with a FLI Proline 16803 CCD and processed by Pixinsight.