Radio Galaxy NGC 5128

 

Equipment set-up

Alluna Optics RC16 with FFC

Alluna Optics

SBIG

SBIG STX16803 and FW5

SBIG AO-X

With a reasonably bright guide star and good (aka slow) seeing the SBIG AO can improve stellar footprints by around 30%

In this image, a conveniently placed guide star allowed 10Hz guiding

Baader Planetarium

Baader HaLRGB filters

Software Bisque

Paramount PMEII

HaLRGB image 31 hours of total exposure time

Processing with MaxIm CCD, Pixinsight, Photoshop CS6

Copyright Peter J Ward 2017

Can you see all 26 grey scales above?