© Digitised Sky Survey (DSS); Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II)

Messier 83 is well placed

Dominic Ford, Editor
From the Deep Sky feed

Objects: M83
Please wait
Loading 0/4
Click and drag to rotate
Mouse wheel to zoom in/out
Touch with mouse to dismiss
The sky at

The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy M83 (NGC 5236; mag 7.2), a face-on spiral galaxy in Hydra will be well placed in the evening sky in coming weeks. On 16 April it will reach its highest point in the sky at around midnight local time, and on subsequent evenings it will culminate four minutes earlier each day.

From San Diego , it is visible between 22:55 and 02:40. It will become accessible at around 22:55, when it rises to an altitude of 21° above your south-eastern horizon. It will reach its highest point in the sky at 00:47, 27° above your southern horizon. It will become inaccessible at around 02:40 when it sinks below 21° above your south-western horizon.

At a declination of 29°51'S, it is easiest to see from the southern hemisphere but cannot be seen from latitudes much north of 40°N.

Begin typing the name of a town near to you, and then select the town from the list of options which appear below.

At magnitude 7.2, M83 is quite faint, and certainly not visible to the naked eye, but can be viewed through a pair of binoculars or small telescope.

The position of M83 is as follows:

Object Right Ascension Declination Constellation Magnitude Angular Size
M83 13h37m00s 29°51'S Hydra 7.2 0'00"

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.

The sky on 16 Apr 2026

The sky on 16 April 2026
Sunrise
06:15
Sunset
19:18
Twilight ends
20:45
Twilight begins
04:49

28-day old moon
Waxing Crescent

0%

28 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 05:21 11:20 17:19
Venus 07:29 14:20 21:12
Moon 05:31 12:05 18:49
Mars 05:23 11:29 17:34
Jupiter 11:15 18:20 01:26
Saturn 05:33 11:38 17:43
All times shown in PDT.

Source

The circumstances of this event were computed using the DE430 planetary ephemeris published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

This event was automatically generated by searching the ephemeris for planetary alignments which are of interest to amateur astronomers, and the text above was generated based on an estimate of your location.

Image credit

© Digitised Sky Survey (DSS); Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II)

Share

San Diego

Latitude:
Longitude:
Timezone:

32.72°N
117.16°W
PDT

Color scheme