Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Centaurus (Cen)  ·  Contains:  Centaurus A  ·  NGC 5128
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NGC 5128 or Centaurus A is characterized by its unusual dust lane and a super massive black hole at center of 55 million solar masses; NASA Goddard SFC. Also of interest is possible merger of NGC 5128 as an elliptical galaxy with a spiral galaxy; rare occurrence Quillen et al. Being the 5th brightest galaxy according to Israel FP; was good for acquisition between short cloudbreak. Humidity 70%, wind speed 15 km/h. G: 139 O: 21 (unity gain).

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Description: After a Topaz Denoise low light pass.

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