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Meet NGC 5128 a starbusrt galaxy. Discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop who at the time lived ine in Parramatta, in New South Wales, Australia.
This image is the result of a collaboration opportunity I had with a Mr. Russ Jacob from Australia. Russ is an astrophotographer and images the southern hemisphere night sky.
The data consists of 10 hours of LRGB taken with a Skywatcher 8″ reflector, ASI 1600MM Pro cooled cmos camera and Astronomics filters.
I processed the data in Pixinsight. It was actually a lot of fun to process this image. Not only is the data of very high quality but I don’t always get to process deep sky objects not visible in the northern hemisphere night sky.
NGC 5128 is also known as Centaurus A. It’s a starburst galaxy and a collision is suspected to be cause of its intense burst of star formation. Models have suggested that Centaurus A was once a large elliptical galaxy that collided and merged with a smaller spiral galaxy.
At the center of this galaxy is a supermassive blackhole with the equivalent of 55 million solar masses! It’s also a source of strong radio and xray emissions.
Technical:
10 hours total
L-R-G-B Astronomic filters
Skywatcher 8″ F5 reflector
ZWO ASI1600mm pro cooled cmos camera
NEQ6 Skywatcher mount
Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro SGP / PHD2 for autoguiding
Processing: Pixinsight
My story began more than 40 years ago looking up at the Moon with a small collapsible telescope my Father had. Encouraged by my parents, who bought me my very own telescope, a 4.5″ reflector, I began to explore the night sky from my family home backyard. Today I do astrophotography from my home in Kitchener, Ontario and also with remote telescopes located in New Mexico and Australia. Some of my images have won awards and have been featured online and in magazines.
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