NGC5128 - The Hamburger - 1hr

[stevous67]

Oh well, 50mins of Luminance [5 subs] and 36mins of RGB [3 subs each] = 1hr 26mins.

It wasn't supposed to be so few a subs, but on the night the wind was relentless pushing most of the time around 20km to 30km. I had 31 Lum subs from the night, 3 had stair cases, the balance were just badly bloated from the heavier gusts. Terry and I were largely saved by wind shields we concocted, and these work perfectly for breezes up to 4-5mtrs per sec.

Luckily it was a bright object, as this integration time wouldn't normally work for most objects out there.


Full Res NGC5128 (https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8705/17238617075_8d7d9f6a86_o.jpg)


Thanks for looking. :hi:

Steve

[multiweb]

Terrific shot Steve. :thumbsup: Love your wind break.

[strongmanmike]

Hey, ya give'n Rolf a run here Steve with that sort of exposure time....show off :rolleyes:

:lol:

It's actually a very fine image of Centaurus A and better than many (most) I have seen and most with much more exposure :thumbsup:

Your portable enclosure is very cool...almost makes me want to give up the dome and observatory and go back to a more rustic astroimagers existent! :)

Mike

[DJT]

Great portable setup Steve and impressive image very nicely processed.:thumbsup:

[RickS]

That's a great result considering the circumstances. It's a great result even ignoring them :thumbsup:

Cheers,
Rick.

[clive milne]

Yep, very, very good.

[alpal]

Nice pic Steve,
what equipment did you use?

cheers
Allan

[Peter Ward]

Ditto with the accolades....plus I really like the mobile rig. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

[TR]

Steve, the colours on the stars are terrific. Nice image given what we had to work with that night.

Terry

[Moon]

First class image Steve :-)

[Placidus]

Almost beyond belief what you achieved in such a short time. Hearty congratulations.

[Joshua Bunn]

Quite astonishing what you can do with such short exposure Steve. You've caught that Jet as well! Did you consider using the van as a windbreak?? Oh... love the mobile rig too!

Josh

[Regulus]

That seems a very satisfying return on your time spent Steve, a lovely photograph.

Trev

[stevous67]

Thanks everyone for the comments!

Cheers Marc and Mike, the wind break really does work and is very compact, and Josh, you know I love my van. Challenging Rolfs effort? I don't think so, but hey, worth a laugh, cheers Mike.

Trevor no matter what, its satisfying to get out when we can hey, imaging under the dark night sky is like a pressure relief value to the stresses of every day life.

Allan, the set up was a CDK12.5 + AP900GTO+STXL11002+AOX.

Thanks again everyone. :prey2:


Steve

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Great image Steve!:thumbsup::thumbsup:

So crisp and detailed.:)

Cheers,

Justin.

[Rod771]

Great result Steve! Well done! :thumbsup:

[Tony_]

Great image Steve! - especially considering the time, gives more hope to those of us who don't get much imaging time!!

[gregbradley]

I am amazed at the quality of the image with such little exposure time. Wow. A bit of background noise but you even got the jet.

I like the rig.

Greg.

[Warhen]

Very very nice!! In the north, we call 3628 the Hamburger, but this one qualifies too. Well done Steve.

[gvanhau]

You got a very nice image, with only 1.26 h exposure.
Even a hint of the relativistic jet is visble on the left.

Congrats
Geert

[Geoff45]

Great work for such a short exposure Steve. Nice subtle colours.
Geoff

[Stevec35]

Very nice result considering the time spent! Even not considering the time spent it's still pretty good.

Cheers

Steve