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    The view of Centaurus A from my back garden - a 'peculiar' galaxy being consumed by a supermassive blackhole
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    The view of Centaurus A from my back garden – a ‘peculiar’ galaxy being consumed by a supermassive blackhole

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    1. EkantTakePhotos on

      Shot over 2 nights from my back garden in Ōtautahi Aotearoa (Bortle 6ish). Also called Caldwell 77 or NGC 5128 it is one of the closest active galaxies to earth at 11m LY away. When this light was created the first human ancestors decided to split from the ancestors of chimpanzees.

      With cloud cover it led to about 8 hours of data collected over the 2 nights. I don’t post enough but I’m also on Insta (@EkantV) and FB (EkantTakePhotos)

      * ZWO Asi533MC Pro camera
      * AM5N Mount
      * ZWO Mini on OAG for guiding
      * 8″ Ritchey-Chretien Astrograph Telescope
      * Antlia Triband Ultra filter

      Stacked and Processed in Pixinsight – BlurX, DBE, SPCC, StarX, GHS and NoiseX

    3. nitaus56 on

      this is astonishing might use this as a wallpaper (with due permission), and i can barely get a picture of mars with my celestron. Still way to go lol!

    4. TennisCultural9069 on

      absolutely beautiful, just want to fly there like superman and check it all out. obviously i would need to fly super fast, but that sort of thing is what i dream of.

    5. charlesapx on

      I can’t seem to find the black hole, can you tell me where I should be looking?