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NGC 4565 Needle Galaxy, Fabian Butkovich
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NGC 4565 Needle Galaxy

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NGC 4565 Needle Galaxy, Fabian Butkovich
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NGC 4565 Needle Galaxy

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This is my first attempt at the Needle Galaxy, I was pretty excited to capture this object as this is the first deep-sky target I've ever acquired completely autonomously using N.I.N.A to locate and frame it. I noticed there is some walking noise present which I suspect is due to tracking being too perfect with my new ioptron CEM26; coming from a SkyWatcher star adventurer, I never noticed any perceivable walking noise because I think the inherent inaccuracy of tracking essentially "dithered" each sub frame slightly. 

I was able to successfully take 2 minute subframes with rock steady guiding using a guide camera and scope.

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NGC 4565 Needle Galaxy, Fabian Butkovich