NGC 5139 Omega Centauri

[leon]

Hi Guys, well the weather has been crap for ages but i suppose we need the rain, however it did clear last night for about 4 hours, and was bitterly cold, minus one at 11,30 pm.

Anyway I was set up and thought i might have a quick go at Omega Centauri, I think it came out reasonably well.

20 images through the Tak, with the 5D, In camera darks, no flats, all at 40 sec's each, @ 400 ISO unguided, processed in Image Plus.

Hope you like it.

Leon sorry people, wrong image just removed it, will get back with the proper one.

[jase (Jason)]

Nice work Leon. No core burn outs with a smooth transition to the heart of this grand cluster. I notice some of your stars in the outer regions appear square. Did you get to the bottom of this - I recall a thread discussing this and possibly causes, but don't recall any resolution.

Keep up the good work.

[leon]

Jase I am not sure what is causing this, maybe it occurs when I reduce it in size for this site, I had that trouble last time as well.

The original image is fine.

Oh bugger, you know what has happend here, i have quite a few of these images, and i have actually posted the wrong one.

The one your are looking at is the same as the last one, sorry.

I had better fix that, see if i can fine the right one.

leon

[Tamtarn]

Sharp as a tack right to the core, terrific Leon.

We haven't even seen it for days let alone try to image. Clouded in every night

[leon]

Talk about a stuff up, the reason i didn't post the right image is because i have actually deleted the ones from last night, by mistake, and thought that the one i posted was from last night, but actually it was from some weeks ago.

I feel a bit silly here, but i suppose these things happen so, there wont be any image to show at all. sorry.

Leon

I'll have a go when it next appears

[leon]

Thanks Barb and Dave, for your kind comments, but i posted you an earlier image by mistake, last night effort is history now.

leon

[h0ughy (David)]

should have left it there anyway leon

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Would loved to have seen them leon,
Got here too late!!
Catch them next time around eh!?
Cheers
Doug

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Hmmm, looks nice Leon

It does need some black sky in the background, and some stars would help. Other than that it looks terrific.

[leon]

Ok, Ok, don't rub it in, I will try and dazzle you next time.

Leon

[mill (Martin)]

Hi leon.
Did you just delete them from the harddrive?
If that is the case you would be able to get them back by using a undelete program.
You can do this with active file recovery.

[leon]

Thanks Mill, sent you a PM.

cheers Leon

[mill (Martin)]

ps: i do data recovery for some businesses around town.
They normally have crashed harddrives and no backups