With the recent dreadful weather I have been unable to use my telescope so I have turned attention to processing data I had previously collected. I was pleased to be able to get a more detailed image of Centaurus A and the dust lanes across the galaxy with improved techniques.
Centaurus A is the 5th brightest spot in the sky. It is 11–13 million light-years away and the closest radio galaxy to earth. It was discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop from his home in Parramatta, in New South Wales.. Powerful radio emissions suggest it was formed from the collision of a large elliptical and a smaller spiral galaxy with the resulting burst of intensive star formation.
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