Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Centaurus (Cen)  ·  Contains:  Centaurus A  ·  NGC 5128
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NGC 5128  Centaurus A, RonAdams
NGC 5128  Centaurus A
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NGC 5128 Centaurus A

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NGC 5128  Centaurus A, RonAdams
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NGC 5128 Centaurus A

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I've been wanting to image this object for a while now. However it is located low in the Southern

Sky. There is a tree line blocking a lot of the sky in that direction. Not only that but there is

a monster pine tree that blocks my view of this object most of the night from my back yard.

I have a small window where NGC 5128 comes out for a little while between two trees. I decided

that I would try and image this object while it was exposed between these two trees. If the trees

aren't enough of an obstacle there is very heavy light pollution in that direction. I took some test images but I couldn't find an exposure or iso setting where my image wasn't blown out.

I could see NGC 5128 in these images. So I picked settings that I thought would best suit the situation. I was able to get 15 light frames before NGC 5128 ducked behind the trees again.

My last two images had part of a pine tree in them. I decided to see how Deep Sky Stacker would handle the images with the pine tree so I aligned and stacked the images with the pine tree in with the rest of the images. The tiff file I got from Deep Sky Stacker did not have the pine tree in it. Most of my time in post processing was spent trying to negate the heavy light gradients without degrading the data of the galaxy. The prettiest part of this galaxy to me is the wide very dim light that surrounds the dust lanes and core of the galaxy. I was only able to capture and bring out just a little of this because of the light gradients which was disappointing

to me. This object for sure needs a dark sky when imaging it. With all of that said I did get an

image although I would consider it pitiful compared to a lot of the images I've seen of this object

on Astrobin. I am pleased with my image just because I finally managed to get an image

if that makes any sense. Please enjoy my first image of NGC 5128.

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NGC 5128  Centaurus A, RonAdams