Centaurus A

[Dealy]

Here's Sunday night's effort.

37 x 260sec with darks.

GSO 250 F4
Canon 1000D unmodded
AZ EQ6 mount
Orion mini guide scope
Baader MPCC

[Retrograde]

Oh yeah that's a lovely shot. Quite deep too with good star colour.

[raymo]

Very nice indeed, pity the scope's an f/4.
raymo

[Somnium]

great effort, you picked up a lot of the galactic glow.

[DavidTrap]

Not a bad effort at all! Great colour.

Is there some sort of reflection across the bottom of the frame?

DT

[Camelopardalis]

Nice one Kev, that's a lovely hamburger :thumbsup:

[andyc]

Oooo, that pops out beautifully! I like the depth and the colour saturation, lovely capture and processing. Slight pity about the glow across the bottom, but I'm in no position to criticise anyone for gradients, and it's a trivial detraction to a great image. Well beyond 'beginner' standard :thumbsup:

[Flugel88]

Very nice Kev it all looks well balanced with superb colour.
Do you have a higher res version post anywhere?

Sunday night was one of the clearest nights I've seen in a while shame its back to the rains now :(.

[Dealy]

Thanks for the comments.

I didn't notice the gradient on the bottom before I posted it. I'll have another go at it and see what I can do.

Michael I'll have to create an Astrobin account because the high res image is a lot nicer.

I'll create a link here when I set up an account.


Kev

[5ash]

Hi Kev,
Lovely capture , so clear and sharp. Lovely colours. Maybe one of your best to date. Hope to see many more pics now the observatory and new telescope are up and running. Weather looks like its against us for a while though.
Regards philip:thumbsup:

[Regulus]

Sunday night's effort is a good result Kev. Well done.

Trev

[Dealy]

thanks Phil & Trev,
Yeah I'm very happy with the results. I appreciate the encouragement.

Kev

[Dealy]

I tried removing the gradient in StarTools but couldn't totally get rid of it, so I reprocessed it and cropped the offending area out.

Higher resolution image is here http://www.astrobin.com/186901/

[Robert9]

That's come up very nicely Kev. Good work.
Robert

[Rex]

Hi Kev, good job mate. Love the star colours and some nice detail in the dust lane. Well done.

[Endrexil]

Nice job mate!
Love the colour,you got the saturation pretty nicely set.
Also love how the dust lane stays very visible beyond the central cone of light...usually fades away at that point on my images.

Great job.