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NGC 4565 x63 (NGC 4565)

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 17:50:04 -0300

NGC 4565 (also known as the Needle Galaxy or Caldwell 38) is an edge-on spiral galaxy about 30 to 50 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices more luminous than the Andromeda Galaxy. It lies close to the North Galactic Pole and has a visual magnitude of approximately 10. First recorded in 1785 by William Herschel, it is a prominent example of an edge-on spiral galaxy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_4565

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Total image time was 13 hours.

Exposure

15x20 min using the filter, 48x10 min luminance

ISO

3200

Camera

Nikon Z7 [8856 x 5504]

Optics

120mm Skywatcher Esprit on a Celestron CGX mount

Guiding

ZWO ASI224MC using Phd2

Controller

Kstars on a MeLe Quieter 3C

Filter

Triad Quad Ultra Narrow Band

Location

Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia.

Date

2023-03-21 -- 2022-04-11

Processing

Processed in PixInsight.

Dynamic Background Extractor

BlurXTerminator

NoiseXTerminator

ScreenTransfer Stretch

StarXTerminator

CurvesTransformation

PixelMath

Date: March 26, 2025

NGC 4565 x28 (NGC 4565)