Centaurus A, NGC5128 in LRHaGB

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Equipment:

Imaging telescope: BeamTech CDK250

Imaging camera: QSI-583wsg

Mount: Astro-Physics 1100GTO

Guiding camera: Starlight Express Lodestar X2 Autoguider

Filters:

Astrodon 3nm Ha 31mm,

Astrodon Tru-Balance RGB E-Series Gen 2,

Astrodon E-Series Gen 2 Luminance

Software:

Acquisition and automation: Starkeeper.it VOYAGER,

Guiding: PHD2,

Raw image calibration and stacking: CCDStack 2+,

Colour calibration: bf-astro eXcalibrator,

Image tweeking: Photoshop CC-2020,

 

Dates:

11 March - 17 April 2020.

Frames:

Astrodon 3nm Ha 31mm: 55x1800" -20C bin 1x1

Astrodon E-Series Gen 2 Luminance: 81x240" -20C bin 1x1

Astrodon Tru-Balance RGB E-Series Gen 2: 79x240" -20C bin 1x1

 

Total Integration: 38.2 hours.

 

Astrometry.net job: 3429702

RA center: 13h 25' 30"

DEC center: -42° 57' 54"

Pixel scale: 0.769 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: 269.932 degrees, up is 270 degrees E of N.

Field size: 41.8 x 31.4 arcmin

Field radius: 0.435 degrees

 

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