Centaurus A
Centaurus A
Centaurus A is the fifth brightest galaxy in the sky -- making it an ideal target for amateur astronomers -- and is famous for the dust lane across its middle and a giant jet blasting away from the supermassive black hole at its center. Cen A is an active galaxy about 12 million light years from Earth. - NASA.Gov
SPECIFICATIONS
Telescope
Planewave CDK24
Camera
FLI ProLine PL9000
Location
El Sauce Observatory Río Hurtado, Coquimbo, Chile
Date of observation
2021-02
Filters
Astrodon Luminance, Red, Green, Blue
Processing
Photoshop
Credits
Image Acquisition Telescope.Live Processing John Buonomo
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Comments
This is quite beautiful, it is so cool that you can see the stars so well through the nebulosity. Great work!