Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Centaurus (Cen)  ·  Contains:  NGC 5139  ·  Omega Centauri
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The Colors of Omega Centauri, Ignacio Diaz Bobillo
The Colors of Omega Centauri
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The Colors of Omega Centauri

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The Colors of Omega Centauri, Ignacio Diaz Bobillo
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The Colors of Omega Centauri

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From my Bortle 8 skies, bright star clusters are about the only things I can image in LRGB. So I often repeat targets in this class, and Omega Centauri is one I go back to when conditions are right. The current image is the result of 160 1-minute Lum subexposures, under very good seeing, combined with the color data of an image I did last year. I tried to emphasize the star colors, so that they are easy to appreciate all the way to the center of the core of the cluster.

APOD 2021-06-03

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The Colors of Omega Centauri, Ignacio Diaz Bobillo