I am very proud to be co-author of the newly published paper "The jet/wind outflow in Centaurus A: a local laboratory for AGN feedback":
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.01751
Last year Rolf Olsen was contacted by Prof Steven Tingay of Curtin University regarding comparing his team's radio images of Centaurus A with his deep 120 hour optical image. Rolph instead suggested we use the collaboration image he and I made together which covers a much wider field of view and was more useful to the proposed paper. Now, after peer review the paper has been published in MNRAS, with both Rolf and myself named as co-authors.
This is the second time
my Centaurus A image, taken way back in 2008 mind you, has been used in a major scientific setting. It featured in the
international conference on Centaurus A held in Sydney in 2009 as the definitive optical image of this galaxy.
It is very gratifying and humbling as an amateur astronomer, to have genuinely contributed to the understanding of this famous and somewhat enigmatic giant southern galaxy.
The Olsen-Sidonio Centaurus A Extreme Deep Field
Hope ya enjoy
Mike