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Omega Centauri from Monday at Auckland

markcol

By markcol
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markcol

markcol

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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

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Dave Smith

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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

661-pete

661-pete

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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!

JAO

JAO

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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

markcol

markcol

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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

Dave

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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

barkis

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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.:)

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