Centaurus A 15 hours and blue jet

I recently found out about a peculiar blue jet coming out of Centaurus A from Spitzer Telescope images.

I added more data from ealier 12.5 inch RCOS images I had to my recent 10:40 image using a TEC180fluorite
and the blue jet was quite visible.

Have a look at the image and the bottom right you'll see the blue jet which is about half way out from the core
of this galaxy. It looks like a short blue line. A strange phenomenon:

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/125013790

This image is now a total of 15:05 hours.

Greg.

Great catch Greg, indeed strange!

Great image!

Tom

Superb Greg!
Cheers,
Tyler

Very interesting. Looks like the cosmic pen slipped and colored outside the lines a little.

Greg,
Great catch and great image. The blue jet is kind of interesting. It doesn't seem to point to the center of the main eliptical. Some believe the the diagonal dust feature is a swallowed galaxy. One can almost imagine the jet coming from where one might guess what would have been the center of this "swallowed" galaxy.

Impressive capture. I didn't no Centaurus A had a jet. Very interesting.

Kevin

Fantastic work Greg!
Beautiful colors & detail... and that Jet, well, astounding!