By Jack Leone | 2022-03-22
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On 03/23/2022 10:24 pm by David Hoskin| Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
The Needle Galaxy (NGC 4565) is a fine example of an edge-on spiral galaxy that is located in the constellation Coma Berenices. It is about 30 million light years from Earth. Several other distant galaxies are visible in this image.
Celestron 150mm XLT f/5 reflector, ZWO ASI533MC Pro camera with Optolong L-Pro filter, SkyWatcher EQ6R Pro mount.
21 4-minute lights plus calibration frames were stacked using ImagesPlus; other post-processing used Photoshop CS2 plus Astronomy Tools plugin, StarNet++ v2, and PhotoScape X.
