The Southern Pinwheel Project
Version 1.0 by Mischa Klement aka cyana

Dedicated to the beauty of the universe and to its
miracles. M83 (Southern Pinwheel Galaxy) is the 
closest radio galaxy, around 15,000,000 lightyears 
away. M83 was classified as intermediate between 
normal and barred spiral galaxies by de Vaucouleurs,
in his classification this is SAB(s)c. 

It is magnificient in our image, has very well 
defined spiral arms and displays a very dynamic 
appearance, appealing by the red and blue knots 
tracing the arms. The red knots are apparently 
diffuse gaseous nebulae in which star formation
is just taking place, and which are excited to 
shine by its very hot young stars.

The blue regions represent young stellar populations
which have formed shortly (i.e., some million or some
dozens of million years ago). Between the 
pronounced spiral arms are regions with fewer 
stars. Dark dust lanes follow the spiral structure 
throughout the disk, and may be traced well into the
central region to the nucleus, which has only 
20" diameter. This nucleus shows strong emission
lines. It is composed of an older yellowish stellar
population which dominates the whole central region,
and extends along the barlike structure.

Six supernovae were reported in M83 up to now, 
more than in any other Messier galaxy

Aside from the content of the skin, it formally 
tries to hide away the borders of the individual
winamp elements; this illusion becomes stronger
when the AVS is placed under the MB and sized to 
its width. A complementing AVS preset is included
in the skin file (rename the extension from wsz
to zip and open the archive, copy the file
southernpinwheel.avs into the folder of the AVS
plugin, and select it by right clicking onto the
AVS window.)

An interesting tiling approach is done on the
MB title bar - the upper half of the galaxy 
belongs to the PL, and the only the lower half
actually is tiled, nearly hiding the tiling
effect away.
 

The Southern Pinwheel Project
version history

  v1.0 published 2001-09-21 at my own web site
  
  skinned Main, EQ, PL, MB, AVS
  skinned MikroAmp
  skinned inner MB area
  AVS preset

Greetings and thanks to:

lentia <inspiration and ild>

Mr Jones <systray color guard>
THEMike <mr. mikroamp>
Jayn <rip killer>
ampburner <vodka powered>
bullGawD <smilies/message ratio leader>
cappy <chief debugger>
chiquita chad <war banana>
doggy dog <dogz dogz 'n' dogz>
e-blackadder <senior detective>
flattmatt <signature sick>
garetjax <lost and found>
mrsbladez <wonder happens>
nini <post graduate>
simon snowflake <weekend traveller>
skinme! <html wizard>
the only lynx <songs from the woods>
wildrose-wally <Canada, even in the darkest night, h?>

... and all the other gals'n'guys at Skin Love ;-)

(c) 2001 Mischa Klement  cyana@aon.at
         THE OMNIS L/\B  www.omnislab.com

enjoy !
cyana

