Hi all,
Well, a rare event in Sydney.....a CLEAR night saw me attempt to capture 2 hours of exposures from Centaurus A, a glorious lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Centaurus. One of the brightest X-ray and radio sources in the night sky, Centaurus A lies between 10 and 16 Million Light years away. Failure of my guiding program after 45 minutes saw me only capture 7 x 5 min subexposures of the planned 24, so this represents only 35 mins worth of data from the Atik 314L+ and the 200mm Newtonian reflector. Its a start, one I hope to get more data on at Ice In Space Astro camp in April.
I was playing around with the drift alignment, but wouldn't you know it, PHD had conniptions and decided to go all haywire on me during the sequence so I had to throw out 17 subs which were all over the shop, not drifted or eggy, but zig zagged.....I wasn't happy.
No darks, flats or bias used. Just the lights ma'am....
Processed in Nebulosity, PS CS3, Startools and the kitchen sink, just for good measure.
Larger, 5.2Meg non compressed version
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Comments, tips and critiques are welcome.
Cheers
Chris
