Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com)  ·  Contains:  IC 3571  ·  NGC 4562  ·  NGC 4565
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The Needle Galaxy - NGC4565, Gabe Shaughnessy
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The Needle Galaxy - NGC4565

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The Needle Galaxy - NGC4565

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The Needle Galaxy, or NGC4565, is an edge-on spiral galaxy in Coma Berenices and lies about 40 million ly away. This galaxy lies near the north galactic pole, meaning that our galaxy would look like a grand spiral galaxy to an observer in NGC4565.

L: 22x5min

RGB: 12x5min each

2x2 binning on all filters

Synthetic luminance taken by all LRGB frames

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The Needle Galaxy - NGC4565, Gabe Shaughnessy

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