Omega Centauri

[74tuc]

Picture of Omega Centauri taken when the seeing was about 3-4 arc secs - about twice a month.

Camera - EOS 350.

4 Exposures - 4M, 2M, 1M, 0.5M

Jerry.:)

[leon]

Nice one Jerry, very crisp and clear.

Leon

[StarKers]

Thanks Jerry,

That's what I was looking for, and found, last night. I thought that I had picked up the galaxy 3128 instead. I'll have to check out the galaxy to-night so I'll know the difference next time.

I got another surprise when I focused on what turned out to be Jupiter.

Nice going,
John.

[richardo]

Excellently composed image Jerry!!
Top colours and the stars appear to be resolve to the core...

What scope were you using?

Nice work.

Cheers
Rich

[Dr Nick]

Wow, you must have resolved every star in that feild :D

[74tuc]

Hi all,

Thanks for the good words.

The 'scope is a Takahashi TOA150.

I was practising focusing the camera (one of the more difficult things for me to get correct!) and thought that photographing a star cluster would be a good test. The stars occupy about 2x2 pixels on average and the resolution on the CCD is approx. 1.2 arc sec. per pixel.

Rgds,

Jerry.:)

[Ric]

Very nice Jerry, nicely resolved and lots of subtle colour.

Cheers

[leon]

That is so cool Jerry, you know i have tried, and tried, with that Little Bugger, and just cant get it right, but you sure did, great work,

leon