Hope you guys don't mind but it's not everyday that we pretty picture takers actually get involved in real science and mix it with International professional astronomers and observatories, so when it happnes it is pretty cool
That now notorious (infamous even ) Deep Centaurus A shot I captured last year has shared centre stage with Hubble, ESO, ATNF etc at the International "Many Faces of Centaurus A" confernece in Sydney last week.
It's not much but all those long hours at the scope and trials and tribulations can pay off at times oh and I didn't take the photos either, the conference organiser did, the flash glare all but obscures the poster
Thanks for listening....and just humour me
Mike
Last edited by strongmanmike; 08-07-2009 at 10:14 PM.
Interesting to see Ron Ekers in reference to Centaurus A. When I was the ATNF in Narrabri year before last, I was talking to him about his work in this area. He was right in the middle of a data aquisition session on that very subject as I spoke to him. He had an image of C-A sticky taped to his office door - to show the scale of the capture area. The central core of the object appeared in the middle of the poster, about the size of a tennis ball. He was explaining that he was imaging the resto of the object in high detail - right to the outer edges of the door. That's a lot of area!
He's a good bloke too. I wanted to go and have a look at antenna 5, so he shut it down and went to lunch early.
Interesting to see Ron Ekers in reference to Centaurus A. When I was the ATNF in Narrabri year before last, I was talking to him about his work on Centaurus A. He was right in the middle of a data aquisition session on that very subject as I spoke to him. He had an image of C-A sticky taped to his office door - to show the scale of the capture area. The central core of the object appeared in the middle of the poster, about the size of a tennis ball. He was explaining that he was imaging the resto of the object in high detail - right to the outer edges of the door. That's a lot of area!
He's a good bloke too. I wanted to go and have a look at antenna 5, so he shut it down and went to lunch early.
The map he was making that you are refering to is this one which has only just been released this week - it's amazing:
An image combining this enormous radio image and my deep optical image, to show scale, was prepared by CSIRO for the media release but they ended up running with the moon and dishes forground version in the end
Incedible to think just how far reaching Cen A's infuence on intergalactic space actually is!
Thanks for all the pats on the back guys...I feel like I am back in kindergarten, now I just need a gold star, or perhaps there's a teddy bear I get to take home for the night...?
T
An image combining this enormous radio image and my deep optical image, to show scale, was prepared by CSIRO for the media release but they ended up running with the moon and dishes forground version in the end
Thanks for all the pats on the back guys...I feel like I am back in kindergarten, now I just need a gold star, or perhaps there's a teddy bear I get to take home for the night...?
) Deep Centaurus A shot I captured last year has shared centre stage with Hubble, ESO, ATNF etc at the International "Many Faces of Centaurus A" confernece in Sydney last week.
oh and I didn't take the photos either, the conference organiser did, the flash glare all but obscures the poster 
