Ngc 5139 zwo asi 071

[benklerk]

NGC 5139
At a distance of about 15,800 light-years from Earth. Omega Centauri is one of the few globular clusters visible to the naked eye—and appears almost as large as the full Moon when seen from a dark, rural area. It is the brightest, largest and the most massive known globular cluster associated with the Milky Way. The stars in the core of Omega Centauri are so crowded that they are estimated to average only 0.1 light years away from each other.
GSO 6" RC
HEQ5 Pro
3min x 17

[Mickoid (Michael)]

Another great image. You're depressing us beginners with these wonderful shots, I think it may be time for you to migrate to the main image forum. You're learning too fast!!

[Anth10 (Anthony M)]

Brilliant, like the golden coloured stars amongst the compact cluster. Very very good. A great omega c.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Very very nice. Yeah I think you've well and truly graduated past beginners...

[blink138 (Pat)]

that is exceptional fella!
star colours are ace
pat

[rcheshire (Rowland)]

+1 Very nice work.

[Atmos (Colin)]

Nicely resolved and wonderful sparkly colours

[BruceG (Bruce)]

Excellent image and great processing
Bruce.

[PKay (Peter)]

Very inspiring, well done.

I think you should stay in the beginners section...
so that beginners like me can ask beginner questions

What software do you use to control the ZWO camera?

Does the ZWO camera give guys like me a better hope than my Canon 500D?

Does the Meade LS 8 suffer from image rotation ( i guess that it uses ALT AZ guiding)?

[benklerk]

Originally Posted by PKay

Very inspiring, well done.

I think you should stay in the beginners section...
so that beginners like me can ask beginner questions

What software do you use to control the ZWO camera?

Does the ZWO camera give guys like me a better hope than my Canon 500D?

Does the Meade LS 8 suffer from image rotation ( i guess that it uses ALT AZ guiding)?

Hi Pkay
I don't use my Meade LS 8 to image, its only used as a visual scope. My 6" RC is my main imaging scope.

The ZWO dosn't have any blocking filters like most DSLRs have. So it has a wide open visual spectrum to capture more Ha light. I moved from a Nikon D7100 and it has made a huge improvement over DSLRs. It also has a cooler so you can cool down the chip, I set it to -15C.

I use the sky X to control my imaging camera and PHD2 to control my ZWO guider.

Ben