Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Centaurus (Cen)  ·  Contains:  Centaurus A  ·  NGC 5128
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NGC5128, the great Centaurus A galaxy at roughly 14 million LY away, Guillermo (Guy) Yanez
NGC5128, the great Centaurus A galaxy at roughly 14 million LY away
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NGC5128, the great Centaurus A galaxy at roughly 14 million LY away

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NGC5128, the great Centaurus A galaxy at roughly 14 million LY away, Guillermo (Guy) Yanez
NGC5128, the great Centaurus A galaxy at roughly 14 million LY away
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NGC5128, the great Centaurus A galaxy at roughly 14 million LY away

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Description

NGC5128, Centaurus A galaxy in a wide field

Site:

Lo Barnechea, Chile

Seeing 4/5 + Transparency 3/5

Images:

CLS/Ha/CLS/OIII composition

15 300 sec subs each channel. 3 hours and 45 minutes total exposure.

20 darks and 20 flats per channel

Comments:

Centaurus A also designated NGC5128, Arp 153 or PGC 46957 is a great galaxy with a prominent central dust band. Its would contain a supermassive black hole at its corer. It is located 14 million light years away from us and part of the local group.

Equipment:

Televue NP101is

SBIG ST8300M

Astronomik CLS + Ha 12nm + OIII filters

Losmandy GM8 mount

Software:

Capture software: PHD2, Sequence Generator Pro

Preprocessing: SIRILIC + SIRIL 0.99.8.1

Postprocessing: SIRIL + GIMP

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