Centaurus A, 130 minutes

[tornado33]

Yet another clear sky night in Newcastle, so I went for Centaurus A. Sadly though rather cool at around 12 degrees, the seeing wasnt as good as it has been, and also the breeze initially dropped off but started up again, so the resolution isnt as good as my NGC 4945 shot a few nights back.

13x10 mins ISO 200, unfiltered, MPCC coma corrector, modded 350D, 10 inch f5.6 newtonian.

Larger version here (http://d1355990.i49.quadrahosting.com.au/Scott/ngc5128x13x10minsiso200unfmod350d10 inch13degbig.jpg)

Scott

[Ric]

Great image Scott

Very nicely framed, this galaxy is always on my favourites list

[multiweb]

Beautiful details. Bit on the yellow side maybe? You've also picked up a little face on spiral at 10 o'clock. Nice work. :thumbsup:

[jjjnettie]

Very nice!
It's such a shame about the compression artefacts though.

[Hagar]

Nice image Scott, great detail.

[bmitchell82]

Great work mate, Ill agree with mark that it is a tad on the yellow. maybe decrese the red by a smidge in curves so you can keep your nice star colours, and increse a little in the lower end of the curve with blues not much but just enough to tame the yellow.

Another tip would be to do some zone noise control using layer masking techniques. You have great SNR in the core, but like we all suffer the dim zone has some nasty noise.

You could layer in a Reveal all gaussian blur for the back ground, then use your brush to bring the unblurred core thus retaining your nice SNR+Detail and subtracting the parts you don't want people to look at. :) its a photo guide your subjects to the spot you want them to see first.!

You could also use a Synthetic lumenence they are great for bringing forward some really nice details.

[tornado33]

Thanks for the suggestions, much appreciated.
Scott