This is the great globular cluster Omega Centauri (NGC 5139) the brightest and grandest globular
cluster of them all. When you consider this deep frame is almost 2 deg on the side you can
appreciate the enormous amount of sky this ball of stars takes up and equates to an area several
times that off the full moon! Many distant background galaxies can be found peeping through the
millions of foreground Milky Way stars and some very faint Milky Way Cirrus dust can be seen
hovering across the lower half of the frame too.