Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com)  ·  Contains:  NGC 4565
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NGC 4565

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Another shot from 2006 using the MX5C OSC camera.

Here's an image of an old favourite, the edge-on spiral galaxy in Coma, NGC 4565. Supposedly one of the best examples of it's type in the sky, this Sb type spiral is pretty large, 16' x 2' and pretty bright at magn. 9.5. It's surface brightness, which is the important factor as far as actually seeing it is concerned, is 13.2 which does make it one of the easier spiral to see. It lies about 40 MLy away which is pretty close in the scheme of things.

I took this a while ago, back in May and 40 x 60 second unguided exposures were summed and process in AstroArt software. Not a lot of colour from the RGB frames, maybe that's just the way it is.

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NGC 4565, astroeyes