Inside NGC 5139 - Omega Centauri

[jsmoraes]

GSO 305 mm - Canon T3 - 10 x ISO 400 - 240 sec - 3 x ISO 800 - 240 sec - 9 x ISO 400 - 240 sec - Halfa - OAG - Skyblow filter - Coma Corrector

http://www.astrobin.com/103694/0/

[strongmanmike]

Nice one Jorges :thumbsup: The latest Astronomy magazine has a cool article about what the sky views might be like living on a planet around a star in 47 Tuc...be a very interesting and brilliant sky!

Mike

[telecasterguru]

Nice work and great colour.

Frank

[gregbradley]

Looks good.

Greg.

[atalas]

Nice work Jorge!

[jsmoraes]

Thank you for comments. Omega is very hard to capture because of his brightness. I tried to resolve the stars inside the core. The colors were enhanced with the frame Halpha; but I am testing the better configuration to get the best Halpha information with stock Canon. It helps to enhance the red information without mess with the other colors.

I will try to find the online version of Astronomy magazine that you told, Michael. :thumbsup:

[SkyViking]

Beautiful resolution in the core, nice work :)

[Eden]

Nice work, Jorge -- O Cen never fails to impress. :thumbsup:

Tempted to go back and have another go at it when weather permits.

[jsmoraes]

Thank you, Rolf and Eden.
I would like to see what I would can get with a barlow 2.5x Powermate.
Omega is a impressive object. You can see it as cluster or as nucleus of galaxy.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Good work Jorge!:thumbsup:

Omega certainly takes quite a bit to get right, yours has come up well.

Cheers,

Justin.

[jsmoraes]

Thank you, Justin. I did another globular cluster: M 5, and it was well, too.

Globular clusters are fantastic ! I always imagine, or dream, with the complexity of gravitational interactions and winds. And the sky that a planet would have in that region.