Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Centaurus (Cen)  ·  Contains:  NGC 5139  ·  Omega Centauri  ·  omega Cen
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Omega Cen, Andrew Murrell
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Omega Cen

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One of my favourite visual targets had to be one of the first objects I photographed with the Orion Sirius EQ-G and Orion ED80. I was having difficulty getting a good polar alignment as the Orions polar scope is designed for the Northern Hemisphere and Sigma Octans is pretty difficult to see via their polar scope. I purchased a Polemaster camera from Orion and on the first night I used the Polemaster I was able to get quite a good alignment. The first object I went to after setting up the goto was NGC5139 and it was centred perfectly and I was able to get a 1-minute exposure without tracking issues. This is a stack of 25 frames shot at 30s to make sure I didn't burn out the core of the cluster.

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Omega Cen, Andrew Murrell