Stargazing Southern Sky Image: View the Southern Cross, Coal Sack & Omega Centauri

[davenn]

An image specially for those in the northern hemisphere that won't see these things ...
upper right - Southern Cross (on it's side) on the lower side of it, the Coal Sack Nebula. Lower centre, the two pointers, Alpha and Beta Centauri. and finally in the upper left, the huge globular cluster - Omega Centauri
Canon 5D3, 70-200mm @ f/l=70mm, f2.8, ISO2000, 30 sec exp

 

[Drakkith]

and finally in the upper left, the huge globular cluster - Omega Centauri

I managed to grab an image of it from northern Louisiana, but it was seriously aberrated thanks to being situated so close to the horizon.

Beautiful image however!

 

[davenn]

image of ? Omega Centauri ?thankyou

just going back few a few images from 2015 - 2016 that I hadn't had time to process

 

[Drakkith]

mage of ? Omega Centauri ?

Yep.

 

[davenn]

Yep.

it's a beautiful globular, not sure if I have posted an image of it on PF in the past or not ?
let me find a pic

 

[davenn]

and totally off topic, a big M 6.7 coming in on the seismo from E of New Caledonia

http://www.sydneystormcity.com/seismograms.htm

 

[davenn]

Yep.

it's a beautiful globular, not sure if I have posted an image of it on PF in the past or not ?
let me find a pic

here we go, just a crop and a little sharpening

 

[Simon Peach]

From where I used to live this was a naked eye object, you had to have good seeing and dark adapted eyes and also know where to look, now
I've move into town it's gone :( and I'm only in a 2 dark sky area!

 

[davenn]

From where I used to live this was a naked eye object, you had to have good seeing and dark adapted eyes and also know where to look, now
I've move into town it's gone :( and I'm only in a 2 dark sky area!

Hi Simon,

yeah, I can only occasionally see it from my home location from the inner west suburbs of Sydney, Oz

the above images were taken from one of my dark sites about an hour drive to the NW of home

Dave