Centaurus A - NGC 5128 - Deep Dive (jacquesdeacon)

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

Centaurus A - NGC 5128 - Deep Dive, jacquesdeacon

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Centaurus A - NGC 5128 - Deep Dive

Hi Everybody,

I present my best effort to date on this Southern Gem, the Centaurus A galaxy (NGC 5128).

From the onset of this project, I aimed to reveal some deep features of this object:

The outer faint 'shell' structures of the galaxy
The beautiful Ha regions in the disk of galaxy
The Ha filaments or jets ejected by the galaxy's black hole

I am very happy with the end result. I got to capture some of the complexity of the outer shells, incorporated the Ha data successfully into the disk area and even revealed two of the Ha 'jets' , although the second one most likely only partially.

It was a tough editing project, spent considerable time getting it this far, but overall pleased with the final product.

I think this is probably as far as I can push a 4inch telescope in average backyard skies. Revealing more detail will require magnitudes more data acquisition and probably a bigger instrument.

For reference here is a version I did back in 2016:

Hope you enjoy!

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Title: Starless version

Description: Amazing to see all the little background galaxies in the field of view.

StarExterminator V2 AI 11 is fantastic!

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