M4, NGC 6144, NGC 5128,& the Moon

[alpal]

Had a good night last night -

I hadn't taken any pics since February due to bad weather.

I set up the telescope & then the clouds rolled in.

I waited for an hour & it cleared.

Other sizes are on my flickr photos - see link at end.

The first photo is M4 globular cluster.

The second photo is NGC 6144 - globular cluster - close to Antares.

It's a very dim glob, mag. 9.1 & 33 kly, & not imaged too often.

The 3rd is a single 10 minute cropped frame of NGC5128 at ISO 1600.

This was an experiment to see if I could get anything with

such a long exposure with light pollution from an outer

suburb of Melbourne.

The 4th is the Moon.

[Gina]

Nice ones

[farunj]

Wow! Nice images!

[alpal]

Thanks guys.

I was just happy to get out & take a few photos after such a long time.

It was freezing cold which helped lower the noise of my EOS 1000d camera.

I put my camera in the fridge to later take dark frames.

[alpal]

A closeup of NGC 6144.

The guiding was quite good -

one of the frames here for NGC 6144 was 10 minutes at ISO 800

[Gina]

Impressive

[alpal]

I ended up re-processing M4.

I think it's better.

A larger version is here:

http://i262.photobuc...4_E_large-1.jpg