Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Centaurus (Cen)  ·  Contains:  NGC 5139  ·  Omega Centauri
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Omega Centauri, Rodney Watters

Omega Centauri

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Omega Centauri, Rodney Watters

Omega Centauri

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The famous Omega Centauri a very bright, expansive and stunningly beautiful globular cluster located in Centaurus. This image was an experiment to see if I could capture reasonable data on a bright object during a busy moon period. I grabbed one hour of data on the night of 3-4 May and the remaining three hours of data on the night of 4-5 May. The moon was between 77% to 88% illuminated over the two nights. Because of the bright moon I limited to sub times to 30 second but took lots of them (120 x 30s per channel for LRGB).

I am pleased with the result and it is interesting to compare it to my previous Omega Centauri taken seven years ago. The equipment used then was a Skywatcher 4" refractor and a Canon 550D DSLR (un modified). Here is a link to the previous image:

https://astrob.in/41896/C/

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Omega Centauri, Rodney Watters

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