By David Majka | 2023-03-22
On 03/03/2023 11:20 pm by Muafak Bisher| Majd El kurum, north district, Jerusalem
The Needle Galaxy is an edge-on spiral galaxy that lies about 39 million light-years away from Earth. You’ll find this beautiful galaxy in the northern constellation, Coma Berenices. The interesting thing that you can see an irregular galaxy IC 3571 that lies in the Coma Berenices constellation. IC 3571 is situated north of the celestial equator and, as such, it is more easily visible from the northern hemisphere, and its lies 58 million light years away.
Telescope skywatchers evostar 72ed
Camera: ZWO ASI071 mc pro
Mount: skywatcher AzEq6 pro
Guide camera: QHY 5iii 178 mc
Guide scope SVBONY 60/240m
Filter: L- optolong Enhanced
This is 12 hours work time of collecting data of NGC4565 the needle galaxy with IC3571 irregular galaxy in the background.