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Community photo entitled  by Harshwardhan Pathak on 02/12/2024 at El Sauce Observatory, Chile

On 02/12/2024 09:38 pm by Harshwardhan Pathak | Website | El Sauce Observatory, Chile

Centaurus A is the fifth brightest galaxy in the sky — making it an ideal target for amateur astronomers — and is famous for the dust lane across its middle and a giant jet blasting away from the supermassive black hole at its center. Cen A is an active galaxy about 12 million light-years from Earth.
I combined my old data (2021) and newer data which was captured this year.

Telescope: Planewave CDK24
Camera: QHY 600M Pro, FLI PL 9000 (spec sheet)
Mount: Mathis MI-1000/1250 with encoders
Filters: Astrodon 2 Gen LRGB

Processed in Pixinsight and Adobe Photoshop