Centaurus A (klaussius)

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

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Centaurus A

Centaurus A is one of the brightest galaxies visible from this side of the world. Its most prominent feature, the dust lane crossing it and making it resemble a burger shape, makes it "the hamburger galaxy" in my book (even though that's the name given to another galaxy, but Centaurus A has a far closer resemblance if you ask me).

This was a troubled capture session. It took a long while to salvage. A dust mote that moved before flat acquisition had to be fixed manually, and there's still some leftovers. There were also guiding issues that lost me quite a lot of capture time, a light leak adding a ton of noise and really hard to remove gradients.

This will need some more work, but for now this is the best I was able to get.

Still, this target is special for me. It was the first galaxy I observed visually, and I'm still impressed by it.

What I like about this image is that it's showing quite a few background galaxies already. If I get an opportunity to get more integration, they should reveal themselves more clearly above the noise. Fingers crossed, the wheather isn't cooperating lately.

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	3637927
PixInsight job	4P5UAJL784ZAVGYARNI10GJGG16OW4DD
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	13h25m40s.91
RA (top/left)	13h20m37s.83
RA (top/right)	13h29m40s.66
RA (bottom/right)	13h30m41s.95
RA (bottom/left)	13h21m46s.62

Dec (center)	-43°00′50″.9
Dec (top/left)	-43°17′33″.3
Dec (top/right)	-43°38′50″.7
Dec (bottom/right)	-42°43′12″.10
Dec (bottom/left)	-42°22′16″.1

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