Omega Centauri

[RAC]

Another test of my scope and the first colour image from it.

10 x 3min RGB

12 x 4min Lum

Atik 383L mono camera

Astronomik L-RGB 2" filters

Stacked with DSS, processed in PixIsight

Carbon Serrurier truss Royce 10" f4 Newtonian.

Televue paracorr type 2

Celestron CGE mount.

Full size here

Omega Centauri by Raymond Collecutt, on Flickr

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Awesome. I spotted Omega Cen with binoculars down-under, but never got to see it through a scope. The paracor seems to be doing a great job, given the star shapes in the corner

[lensman57]

love it, I wish we all had access to the southern skies.

Regards,

A.G

[Knight of Clear Skies]

That's wonderful, great job.

[JohnC64]

fantastic image - a very nice range of colour in the stars and crisp and distinct pin-point stars all the way to the centre.

Beautiful!!

John

[StuartJPP]

Great work on a massive object, it makes M13 look anorexic... I was fortunate to observe and get a couple of subs last year from the Canaries but even then it was low on the horizon...this is very good.

[Coco]

Outstanding image, love the star colour..

[robbie c]

Stunning image and the full size image took my breath away brilliant well done 

[Adamar98]

Wow! So many stars! That's a corker! Well done.

[southernman]

Wonderful image!

Peter

[SkyJamie]

Beautiful

[Barry-Wilson]

Simply beautiful! What a treat to see this southern globular!

Barry

[Mark72]

Yes, indeed, after such an image to try M13 is just ridiculous, spectacular cluster.

Mark

[Luis Campos]

Amazing image!!!

That project of your is really singing now, great mirror you got there, and I've seen you comparo of the MPCC and Parracor, wow it's a big difference in sharpness, it made me want to get a parracor to replace my MPCC

Please, do keep on sending more beauties:)

[RAC]

Amazing image!!!

That project of your is really singing now, great mirror you got there, and I've seen you comparo of the MPCC and Parracor, wow it's a big difference in sharpness, it made me want to get a parracor to replace my MPCC

Please, do keep on sending more beauties:)

Yes it was a great relief when i slipped the Paracorr in and found everything as perfect as i could ever hope for. There is a very small amount of tilt on the sensor or focuser but if it's focused well i cant tell and the scope is super stable with temps. The Paracorr puts the camera out at about the same distance as an eyepiece would be so i needed to shift the mirror back about 80mm. But now if i want to use the scope for visual all i do is unscrew the camera and put the top back on the Paracorr, and the Paracorr works awesome for viewing!

[PeterCPC]

Mind blowing image - you must be very pleased with that.

Peter

[cloudbuster]

fantastic image!

[sologuitarist61]

Stunning image!

[C7tsj]

Fantastic image.

[knobby]

Beautiful