To most of us living in the Southern Hemisphere, the Southern Cross and the Pointers (Alpha and Beta Centuari) is an iconic view, readliy seen from even the most light-polluted venue. It is also one of the first things visitors to the south hemisphere want to see.
I was putting together a public presentation for the Aoteroa Astrotourism Academy (which we are pleased to host this year in Otago), and realised I didn't have an image of this iconic field. So I assembled together from 12 of the Astrobin Community survey fields currently in progress. Although this doesn't use the mosaicing method being explored for the survey by
@James Tickner , the PI mosaic software worked OK in this instance. The mosaic was done at 15arcsec/pixel because my 2017 Mac not longer has the capacity to process at the native 5arcsec/pixel. [Or it is that I no longer have the patience to wait?] Nevertheless I thought my AB friends would like to see it.
While not plentiful in bright nebula [Running Chicken aside], this part of the Milky Way is rich in dark lanes and nebula. The Coalsack [or Te Pattiki: The Flounder in Maori] is partcularly prominent of course, but there is a lot to explore here.
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