Vacation Announcement
I will be on vacation from June 2nd through June 9th.
If anyone would like to volunteer to post APOD during that time, please FReepmail me.
Otherwise the APOD will not be posted as I will be visiting relatives in California.
| Right Ascension | 13 : 25.5 (h:m) |
|---|---|
| Declination | -43 : 01 (deg:m) |
| Distance | 15000.0 (kly) |
| Visual Brightness | 7.0 (mag) |
| Apparent Dimension | 18 x 14 (arc min) |
Yes, you need to be well south to find this object. From about the latitude of Los Angeles or Atlanta it will be about 15 degrees above the southern horizon at its zenith. Here is an amateur image. It's a 20-minute exposure at f4 on Kodak RG 1000 through a 10-inch telescope.
Central region of galaxy Centaurus A:
Centaurus A is the nearest radio galaxy at about 10 - 15 million light-years' distance. Radio image of the inner lobes at 6 cm (4.9 GHz; VLA).
Centaurus A is also known as NGC 5128
This composite combines an optical picture of Cen A with dark lines tracing lobes of radio emission and an infrared image from the ISO satellite (in red).
Chandra X-ray image; composite of two observations 1999/2000
