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Old 04-07-2015, 10:04 AM
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Centaurus Extreme Wide Field - Katoomba Airfield

Hey all,

It's been a while since I have posted any astro photo related images, largely due to work commitments. Before last week the last time I was under a dark sky was in March at Wiruna and the conditions weren't great the night I was there.

It had also been so long that I had forgotten some of my image processing techniques, but it is starting to come back to me.

Last time I imaged this area was about 2 years ago when I mistakenly took 1 sub... it was off centre of my intended target which at the time was Omega. When I got home and checked my images I noticed I had also captured Centaurus A and NGC 4945 in what I thought at the time was a "stuffed up sub". Ever since then I always wanted to try this field again by capturing all 3 objects in the 1 image.

So this was the result of almost 2 hours of exposures. Pretty happy with how this turned out. The approaching tree line on the side of the airfield stopped me from getting my full 2 hours with of images.

A much higher res image can be found here. It is worth a look to see all the small galaxies that dot the field also.

Feedback much appreciated.

Thanks for looking,

Jason
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