ARP 153 - Centarus A

Centarus

Galaxy

ARP153 - Peculiar Galaxy
Date: Dec 25, 2007 Time: 23:50 UTC Location: Melbourne Australia
Instrument: 253mm f/6 RCOS RC Mount: Bisque Paramount Guiding: ST8- Internal Guider
Extra Hardware: None Seeing: Good Transparency: Fair
Camera: SBIG ST8XME NABG Filter Wheel: Internal Filter: AstroDon L
Exposure: 7 x 300 Seconds Camera Control: MaximDL 4.11 Processing: MaximDL,Sigma-Reject, PSCS
Image Center: RA 13h 25m 57s, Dec -43d 03m 19s, Pos Angle 0d 40'
Effective Focal Length 1510 mm ~1.23" per Pixel
Also know as Centarus A or NGC5128
Notes: Obtained Robotically using GRAS-015.