Centaurus A

[batema]

After many attempts of aligning and waiting for the weather on the sunshine coast to improve we had the best night of our brief deep sky photography. I thought I would post our most successful image to date. We are very excited given the fact that we are posting Centaurus A that consists of:

Lights 3 x 5 Minutes at ISO 800 of which i believe DSS only stacked 2 of them and 2 Darks.

Image taken with ed80 Skywatcher, HEQ5pro mount, PHD guided, stacked and processsed in DSS.

After some Eta Caarina shots we turned to the Sombrero at 2.00am and notice that the power light on our mount was flashing which put an end to our night.



Mark B

[peter_4059]

Thats a very nice Cent A Mark. What camera were you using?

Peter

[Zuts]

Nice shot, you managed to capture the dust lanes. Focus, guiding and processing look good.

Paul

[iceman]

Very nice for only 2 exposures! Excellent work.

[batema]

Peter we were using an unmodified Canon 350 D.

[firstlight]

Wow, great image, jumps right out of the screen.

[leon]

All looks pretty good with this one Mark, plenty of detail in there, well done.

Leon

[Phil]

Great capture Mark well done.
Phil

[[1ponders]]

Nicely done Mark. That's a great shot for only 2 images stacked.

Pretty addictive isn't it :lol: What time did Adam go home? ;)

[Matty P]

A very nice capture Mark for only 2 exposures. Focus looks good and nice processing.

Well done.

[batema]

Paul 2.30 am on a school night. We suffered on the Wednesdayas did our students who spent the entire day viewing our images. Mark

[[1ponders]]

:lol:

I know what you mean. Mine cop it regularly as well :lol: Are you coming up to Ron's tonight?

[batema]

Sorry Paul but had to go out after last post . Obviously no however wished I could. Hopefully you had fine weather. Mark

[sheeny]

That's impressive for only 2 subs! Well done!

Al.

[Ric]

A lovely image Mark, very sharp and detailed.

Cheers