NGC 5128 - Centaurus A Galaxy
NGC 5128 - Centaurus A Galaxy
Technical data:Aquisition date: 29 December 2019Exposure: RGB 114x3 min, -10CTotal exposure: 5,7 hoursTelescope: Orion UK CT8Mount: AZ-EQ6Camera: ZWO ASI294 MC ProGuide: TS 60mm scope & T7 cameraControl: EQMOD, PHD2, Stelarium, APToolProcessing: PixInsight
NGC 5128 is well known radio emitting peculiar galaxy in the sky and it is actually the nearest giant elliptical galaxy to our Milky Way at a distance of about 12 million light-years.
The galaxy most likely undergone a recent merger event, which left a prominent dust lane in the center of the galaxy, but also some neutral cool gas orbiting in the halo at larger distances from the galaxy center.
