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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Some excellent results there Mat, seems like these days, an image of Cen A that doesn't show the Ha jet is not a complete image anymore  . As you know, I have a deep connection with this galaxy myself, so I love seeing new versions, as amateur imaging technology, processing techniques (and patience!), progresses. Like the recent features showcased around the heavily imaged M31, Cen A also seems to keep on delivering more subtleties to those that put the time in to look... even after all these years, it's great  ....I wonder what will be possible in the coming years... 
Nice work mate, love the faint subtle patches of Ha revealed in the outer Milky Way IFN environs and interesting how you suppressed the star field too, without doing so there a lot of stars around it! 
Another great project, you and Rolf are a formidable team of Kiwis
Mike |
Many thanks Mike! Your deep images and your collaboration with Rolf + your MNRAS paper really set the benchmark for deep Cen A imaging and were a big inspiration
. I'm glad you noticed the star field as I did try a few different versions, but decided to keep the stars more subdued to allow the more subtle narrowband emission features to be the star, as it were