Ruud de Vries - Dutch Backyard Astrophotography

Fighting light pollution.....

NGC 4565, Needle Galaxy

NGC 4565 (sometimes called the the Needle Galaxy) is an edge-on spiral galaxy about 40 million light-years awa. It is located in the constellation of Coma Berenices.


NGC 4565

Telescope
Esprit 120ED APO Triplet
Camera
Atik one 6.0
Mount
Skywatcher Eq6-R
Flattener
TSFlat2,5
Guiding camera
Starlight Xpress Lodestar
OAG
TS 2" Off Axis Guider
Exposure
31 * 600 sec L, 42 * 120 sec L, 12 * 300 sec R, 12 * 300 sec B, Synthetic Green