This image was processed from just the RGB data and represents
what Centaurus A usually looks like in most wider field images.....

However! If you stare at Centaurus A and its surrounds long enough
...it looks like this: http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/97061387/original

AP152 F7.5 Starfire APO refractor with 4" field flattener
FLI ProLine11002 CCD & CFW-2-7
RGB = 90 90 90min (all bin 1X1) Astronomik filters
-35C chip temp, darks and flats (AstroHandy LightRing used for flats)
12MPPS download speed = 1.5sec/full frame download at bin 1X1.
FOV = 1.8deg X 1.2Deg
Image scale 1.6"/pix
Guide Camera: Starlightxpress SXVH9

Comments:
Taken under good conditions from "Wiruna" - the dark sky site for the
Astronomical Society of New South Wales


See the equipment used to take this image here:
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/81003751/original

Some links to equipment used to take this image:

Finger Lakes Instrumentation CCD cameras:

http://www.fli-cam.com/

Astro-Elecronic FS2 scope GOTO controller:

http://www.astro-electronic.de/

Gerd Neumann/Astronomik filters:

http://www.gerd.neumann.net/

http://www.astronomik.com/

MSB Software & Astroart 4

http://www.msb-astroart.com/

STAR Atlas:PRO planetarium software:

http://www.skylab.com.au/

AstroHandy Accessories

http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/astrohandy_lightring

http://www.astrohandy.com