Omega Centauri imaged by Jason Ware with a Meade 12-inch ACF 400 telescope, an Apogee U9 6303E CCD camera, and multiple stacked exposures shot from Plano, Texas.
I can recall many times standing at a big Dob at the Texas Star Party peering at Omega Centauri (NGC 5139), thinking, “God, I’m glad I don’t have to count the stars.” The same could be said of this extraordinary image sent by skyshooter Jason Ware, showing the great globular cluster in Centaurus. Jason made the image a few days ago and humbly says, “This won’t be the best image of Omega Centauri you’ve ever seen.”
Well, it’s a stunning image. The thing that makes it cool is that Jason made the image at his home in Plano, Texas, just 25 miles north of downtown Dallas.
Now how’s that for deep-sky astroimaging from the edge of a major city?