The galaxy has prominent dust lanes and shells which could be the result of a merger with a small satellite galaxy. The field of view in the image is 2.2x2.2 arcmin.
North is up and east to the left.
The mean seeing was 0.38, 0.40 and 0.34 arcsec in the U, V and I-band, respectively. Most of the brightest objects in the image belong to our Galaxy, but some, like the bright object near the center of the field are globular clusters in NGC 5128. The high resolution of Magellan and excellent seeing allowed us to resolve the stars in the halo of the elliptical galaxy. The underlying population are the old red giant stars. Superposed on it is a bright blue jet of ionized gas.