Vela, IC2944 and Omega Centauri with Berts Lens

[tornado33]

Hi all
After the Newcastle Astronomy Societies meeting the skies were good so into some imaging.
All images taken with Bert's 300mm f2.8 flourite lens, uv/ir and UHC-S filters and modded 350d @ISO400. Hand guided.
The RCW32 at centre image with 2 larger patches either side is 4x 10 mins the Vela SNR area is 3x10mins, as is IC2944. Omega Centauri is 2x10 mins. Processed as usual in Iris and Photoshop.
Scott

[DobDobDob]

I love the 4th one, http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=23855&d=1172278772 I guess I must have a thing for globular clusters, I love the way it sounds when you say it and I love the way they look :whistle:

[tornado33]

Heres a masked version of Omega Centauri, masked with a 2x1 min shot.
Full res version here
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/uploads/omegacentauri2x102x1maskedminiso400 suhcs300mmbig.jpg
Shows the power of Bert's flourite lens, theres a few little galaxies about, including an oddball one about 11 o clock position from Omega.
Scott

[DobDobDob]

Yeah that's magic, there is so much going on in that image, you can study every square inch and see some incredible detail. The zoomed out view of it shows a classic Globular, it is so dense from this perspective, I wonder if it has the same look from every point in space? What I mean by that is, this cluster shows a fairly spherical shape but if viewed side on, would it appear the same?

[Ric]

Beautiful images Scott. Simply fantastic.

Well done

[tornado33]

Thanks . I did hear that Omega Centauri might be slightly egg shaped not perfectly round, and is so massive it could almost be considered a small galaxy.
I have managed to identify some of the galaxies present. The strange shaped faily big one at the 11 oclock position is ESO269-085 and is mag 12.1 Morphological type Sc and a DSS image shows it as a spiral, and worthy to me observed in its own right, its now on my "to image" list with the 10 inch scope.
One in the 5 o clock position is NGC 5206, mag 10.6
Scott

[DobDobDob]

Make sure you post an image of it once you get around to it :thumbsup:

[RB]

Beautiful work Scott.

[Astroman]

What was the lens again?

Beautiful shots, love omega...

[Garyh]

More top shots!!!! Scott,
love that wider field of view you get with this lense..
cheers