Full Frame

3rd place UKAI Summer Imaging Challenge
http://ukastroimaging.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=65137.0

This is the great globular cluster Omega Centauri (NGC 5139) the brightest and grandest globular
cluster of them all. When you consider this deep frame is almost 2 deg on the side you can
appreciate the enormous amount of sky this ball of stars takes up and equates to an area several
times that off the full moon! Many distant background galaxies can be found peeping through the
millions of foreground Milky Way stars and some very faint Milky Way Cirrus dust can be seen
hovering across the lower half of the frame too.

Orion Optics AG12 F3.8
FLI ProLine 16803 CCD & CFW-5-7 + Atlas Focuser
LRGB 16 6 6 6min (bin 1X1) Astronomik filters
-30C chip temp, darks and flats (Astronomik Aurora Light Panel used for flats)
Focal length 1120mm
Image scale 1.6"/pix
Guide Camera: Starlightxpress SXVH9

Comments

Reasonable seeing and new moon, NO WIND! Yay! :-)

Equipment setup:

http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/146681973/original

Some links to equipment used to take this image:

Finger Lakes Instrumentation CCD cameras:

http://www.flicamera.com/

Astro Shop (Aus)

http://www.astroshop.com.au/

Astro-Elecronic FS2 scope GOTO controller:

http://www.astro-electronic.de/

Gerd Neumann and Astronomik filters:

http://www.astronomik.com/en/home

http://www.gerdneumann.net/

MSB Software & Astroart 4

http://www.msb-astroart.com/

Catseye Collimation

http://www.catseyecollimation.com/

STAR Atlas:PRO planetarium software:

http://www.staratlaspro.com/