Omega Centauri

Omega Centauri the great globular cluster in Centaurus was fairly low when I imaged it on this trip. It was skirting along the mountain range outside the Parador hotel. I think had it been higher I would have been able to get more colour in the stars. I was please I picked up the small galaxy to the bottom left which is PGC 47003. Given this is such a short exposure of only 15 ins in total I was really pleased with the result.

 

Omega Centauri (ω Cen, NGC 5139, or Caldwell 80) was first identified as a non-stellar object by Edmond Halley in 1677. Located at a distance of 17,090 light-years (5,240 parsecs), it is the largest-known globular cluster in the Milky Way at a diameter of roughly 150 light-years. It is estimated to contain approximately 10 million stars, and a total mass equivalent to 4 million solar masses, making it the most massive-known globular cluster in the Milky Way.

 

Omega Centauri is very different from most other galactic globular clusters to the extent that it is thought to have originated as the core remnant of a disrupted dwarf galaxy

 

- Information care of en.wikipedia.org

 

Telescope - Skywatcher 120 ED Esprit with Field Flattener

 

Gain - 7

 

Offset - 30

 

Camera - QHY168C

 

Guiding - None

 

Image Capture - TSX on Mac

 

Mount - MyT

 

File - Omega Centauri combined Int Crop DBE BN SCNR Solve Hist Curves ChannelMatch ColSat Hist Hist ET NoiseExt.Jpg

 

Exposure - 30 x 30s Total 15 mins

 

Parador Hotel, Tenerife

 

Date Taken - 28th June 2022

 

Time Taken - 22:49

 

7,000ft

 

All processing in PixInsight

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