NGC 5128/Centaurus A in HaLRGB (gmadkat)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Centaurus (Cen) · Contains: Centaurus A · HD116466 · HD116647 · NGC 5128

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NGC 5128/Centaurus A in HaLRGB

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NGC 5128/Centaurus A in HaLRGB

NGC 5128 Centaurus A is a giant elliptical galaxy and is the closest of its type to our galaxy. Centaurus A is a source of powerful radio emissions, triaxial in form and has a thin warped disk that hosts large quantities of molecular gas and star forming regions.
NGC 5128 is peculiar for an Elliptical galaxy due to its broad and patchy equatorial dark band. The band bisects the almost circular bright central part of the galaxy. This has resulted in NGC 5128 being sometimes also classified as a polar ring galaxy even though it lacks several of the characteristics common to polar ring galaxies.
Of note in this image are the striking Hydrogen Alpha jets emanating from the galaxy. There are also x ray jets that are outside of the visible spectrum but have been shown in other images using specialized camera’s.

Imaged on the PlaneWave CDK 1000 and CDK 700 at Observatorio El Sauce, Chile, in LRGB and Hydrogen Alpha.
Image data and preprocessing: Mike Selby

Processed by me in Pixinsight and Photoshop.

I blended a an upscaled Lum from the CDK700 with the CDK1000 Lum to get more details in the central region.
Ha was used both for blending with R and also for the Lum details

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	7658833
PixInsight job	H2DLC2YLOX8XBMAIIHLMZUA93LC31YH7
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	13h25m28s.681
RA (top/left)	13h26m44s.282
RA (top/right)	13h24m13s.143
RA (bottom/right)	13h24m12s.509
RA (bottom/left)	13h26m44s.816

Dec (center)	-43°01′03″.32
Dec (top/left)	-42°47′11″.14
Dec (top/right)	-42°47′09″.28
Dec (bottom/right)	-43°14′53″.21
Dec (bottom/left)	-43°14′54″.24

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