Last year Rolf Olsen was contacted by Prof Steven Tingay of Curtin University regarding comparing his team's radio images of Centaurus A with his deep 120 hour optical image. Rolph instead suggested we use the collaboration image he and I made together which covers a much wider field of view and was more useful to the proposed paper. Now, after peer review the paper has been published in MNRAS, with both Rolf and myself named as co-authors.
This is the second time my Centaurus A image, taken way back in 2008 mind you, has been used in a major scientific setting. It featured in the international conference on Centaurus A held in Sydney in 2009 as the definitive optical image of this galaxy.
It is very gratifying and humbling as an amateur astronomer, to have genuinely contributed to the understanding of this famous and somewhat enigmatic giant southern galaxy.
Actually, I am the co author of another paper, due for release soon, with another new discovery of mine that's all I can say at this stage sshhhh ...when it rains it pours as they say
Indeed it is good to know that hours and hours at the scope (including turning my dome like a mule ) then hours and hours at the computer... can pay genuine dividends to science on the odd occasion .
Thanks Rob, I think I can speak for Rolf too when I say that although its only in a very small way, genuinely contributing to our understandings of the Universe is really quite an honour
that's all I can say at this stage sshhhh ...when it rains it pours as they say 
) then hours and hours at the computer... can pay genuine dividends to science on the odd occasion 
