Blast From My Past! 2019 The Needle Galaxy - Please Read Description (Jim Raskett)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com) · Contains: HD109627 · IC 3531 · IC 3533 · IC 3536 · IC 3543 · IC 3546 · IC 3571 · IC 3582 · NGC 4555 · NGC 4562 · NGC 4565 · Needle Galaxy

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Blast From My Past! 2019 The Needle Galaxy - Please Read Description

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Blast From My Past! 2019 The Needle Galaxy - Please Read Description

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. It lies close to the North Galactic Pole and has a visual magnitude of approximately 10. It is known as the Needle Galaxy for its narrow profile. First recorded in 1785 by William Herschel, it is a prominent example of an edge-on spiral galaxy.

Hi Everyone,
This is an image from my first year of astrophotography.

I saw the Needle Galaxy in SkySafari a few days ago while looking for something to image.
Every time that I open my imaging laptop, I see my original process of this image from 2019.
I though that it still looked okay, so I decided to give it a proper process. Well, close anyway because I didn’t save any calibration file’s besides dark frames!

Imaged with my old stock Nikon D3300 in my first year of astrophotography, 2019.
The Nikon D3300 camera does not have an SDK, so I could not use any of the traditional imaging applications. I found DigiCam Control software (open source) on the internet and it allowed my to basically use the D3300 with my laptop. Worked well!

No dithering and no field flattener, but I did order a guide camera a few months before and I think that it was used here.

With not much experience in AP, I lucked up and ended up with not too bad of an image!

Thanks for reminiscing with me! Comments welcome!

Jim

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Astrometry.net job	9169752
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	12h36m20s.87
RA (top/left)	12h34m32s.95
RA (top/right)	12h34m22s.28
RA (bottom/right)	12h38m07s.18
RA (bottom/left)	12h38m20s.82

Dec (center)	+25°59′07″.7
Dec (top/left)	+26°40′03″.6
Dec (top/right)	+25°19′57″.0
Dec (bottom/right)	+25°18′10″.5
Dec (bottom/left)	+26°38′16″.9

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