Omega Centauri from Monday at Auckland

[markcol]

Omega Centauri also imaged by the 400D on the CPC800 with .63 reducer.

Stack of about 20 exp mostly of a minute @ios800.

Makes M13 look a touch weedy doesn't it!

cheers

Mark

[Beyond_Vision]

Beautifully resolved Mark what a great looking cluster.

Regards

Kevin

[Talitha]

Absolutely stunning, Mark.. beautifully done!

[Psychobilly]

Awesome Mark ...Thanks for sharing with us

Make's M13 look like a B-Road...

Billy...

[Dave Smith]

Very nice indeed. You can see the "foot print" in the middle. Your photos have brought back happy memories of a visit to Oz a couple of years back, thank you.

Dave

[trudie]

Incredible detail, I envy your skies.

Trudie

[Sam]

Another excellent image Mark! that's one is certainly a monster of a glob!

[661-pete]

Wow! that is one BIG globular, beautifully resolved and lots of depth and colour. You southerners are so lucky! I wish I could see the beast, it's just a measly 1° below the horizon from my place!

[CELESCOPE]

Hey thats a beauty Mark, lovely fine detail , excellent processing .

Rog:)

[Mick.G.]

That is a real beauty

Mick.G.

[Aza]

Stunning. you have done a great job on that. Would love to have a go at imaging that myself!

[JAO]

Just stunning, and a chance for us in the north to see this fine object that is too far south! Many thanks for sharing

Adrian

[ZOG]

Top cluster, top image, well done Mark

[Darth Takahashi]

WOW, maybe one day I'll get to see it myself... Now if I can just find a business reason to visit OZ?

[markcol]

Many thanks for kind comments folks!

I was really pleased to be able to have a go at the two big globs (47 Tucanae & Omega Centauri) on my last evening in NZ which happened to be beautifully clear. The sheer size and brightness of it makes it a fairly straightforward object to image, and I was lucky enough to be able to use my brother-in-laws scope with my own reducer. He lives on a rural hilltop location about 50k's south of Auckland and is showing signs of becoming intrested in imaging when he retires....

Mark

[Dave]

Beautifully captured.

But you don't have to go all the way to Oz to see this beauty.

It reaches a respectable altitude from somewhere like Tenerife.

[barkis]

How I would love to eyeball that beautiful Globular Cluster.

You captured it superbly well Mark, that's a terrific sight.

Hard to Imagine what the sky must be like from a planet orbiting one of those stars. Be little optical astronomy done I bet.

Ron.

[MartinB]

Beautiful Mark. Very tight stars. Wonderful celestial snowball

[Tim]

Superb image Mark, a real treat for us northerners! Nicely processed too.

[Whippy]

Superb image Mark, that is one gorgeous glob!

Tony..

[bazza]

A beauty Mark.

The detail is stunning.

Barry.