Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Centaurus (Cen)  ·  Contains:  NGC 5139  ·  Omega Centauri  ·  omega Cen
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Omega Centauri (NGC 5139). Imaged from Phoenix, AZ., SouthWestAstro
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Omega Centauri (NGC 5139). Imaged from Phoenix, AZ.

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Omega Centauri (NGC 5139). Imaged from Phoenix, AZ., SouthWestAstro
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Omega Centauri (NGC 5139). Imaged from Phoenix, AZ.

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This image was shot with the cluster just 10 degrees above the southern horizon, with the telescope pointed across the Sonoran desert due south of Phoenix.

Omega Centauris is very large and I chose to image it with my 60 mm refractor. I usually image globulars with my C8 but this cluster would fill most of the frame.

Only 10 minutes of data was possible because the target is rapidly descending below the horizon. Also it turned out I was set up on land that was part of the Gila River Reservation and a security officer politely asked me to move on.

The revised version of the image is a crop of the original and was processed using Pixinsight.

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Omega Centauri (NGC 5139). Imaged from Phoenix, AZ., SouthWestAstro