Hi all
After the Newcastle Astronomy Societies meeting the skies were good so into some imaging.
All images taken with Bert's 300mm f2.8 flourite lens, uv/ir and UHC-S filters and modded 350d @ISO400. Hand guided.
The RCW32 at centre image with 2 larger patches either side is 4x 10 mins the Vela SNR area is 3x10mins, as is IC2944. Omega Centauri is 2x10 mins. Processed as usual in Iris and Photoshop.
Scott
Heres a masked version of Omega Centauri, masked with a 2x1 min shot.
Full res version here http://www.iceinspace.com.au/uploads...cs300mmbig.jpg
Shows the power of Bert's flourite lens, theres a few little galaxies about, including an oddball one about 11 o clock position from Omega.
Scott
Yeah that's magic, there is so much going on in that image, you can study every square inch and see some incredible detail. The zoomed out view of it shows a classic Globular, it is so dense from this perspective, I wonder if it has the same look from every point in space? What I mean by that is, this cluster shows a fairly spherical shape but if viewed side on, would it appear the same?
Thanks . I did hear that Omega Centauri might be slightly egg shaped not perfectly round, and is so massive it could almost be considered a small galaxy.
I have managed to identify some of the galaxies present. The strange shaped faily big one at the 11 oclock position is ESO269-085 and is mag 12.1 Morphological type Sc and a DSS image shows it as a spiral, and worthy to me observed in its own right, its now on my "to image" list with the 10 inch scope.
One in the 5 o clock position is NGC 5206, mag 10.6
Scott
