Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com)  ·  Contains:  NGC 4562  ·  NGC 4565  ·  Needle Galaxy
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NGC 4565, Needle Galaxy, David Dearden
NGC 4565, Needle Galaxy
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NGC 4565, Needle Galaxy

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Date: 8 May 2012

Subject: NGC 4565, Needle Galaxy

Scope: Meade 4501, 0.5x Antares telereducer

Filter: none

Mount: CG-5 (Synta motors)

Guiding: Orion ST80 + 0.5x Antares telereducer + DSI Ic + PHD

Camera: DSI IIc (cooled at 2 A, 6.0 V)

Acquisition: Nebulosity 3.0.3

Exposure: 25 x 300 s

Stacking: Neb 3, bias included, normalize first, align, 1.5 SD stack

Processing: Digital development with sharpening, power stretch, Keller stretch, a little unsharp mask and a little saturation boost in N3, CS5 levels, healing brush to fix bad pixels.

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NGC 4565, Needle Galaxy, David Dearden