Wednesday, April 29, 2009
The Needle Galaxy - NGC 4565
A beautiful "edge-on" unbarred spiral galaxy galaxy located 53 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. Note the neighboring galaxy seen as a dim smudge just to the right of the Needle galaxy.
Stats:
7 x 5min Subs
QHY8 w/IDAS LPS Filter
Orion 80ED mounted on CG-5GT
Auto-guided with ST80 and Meade DSI
Preprocessed in Nebulosity
Processed in CS4
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