NGC4565 The Needle Galaxy (Denis Janky)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com) · Contains: IC 3543 · IC 3546 · IC 3571 · IC 3582 · NGC 4562 · NGC 4565 · Needle Galaxy · PGC 1746033 · PGC 1752031 · PGC 1755309 · PGC 1757504 · PGC 1760893 · PGC 1760926 · PGC 1762205 · PGC 1768433 · PGC 1768901 · PGC 2793674 · PGC 3096166 · PGC 42038 · PGC 42060

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NGC4565 The Needle Galaxy

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NGC4565 The Needle Galaxy

This is the first image with my new telescope! I battled poor seeing and strong winds to acquire the data, and so many frames were excluded from processing. Fortunately this is a bright galaxy. I hope you will enjoy my effort.

NGC4565, the so-called Needle Galaxy, is one of the most iconic edge-on spiral galaxies in the northern sky. It is located about 40 million light years away in the constellation Coma Berenices and is a favorite spring target for both imagers and visual observers. The galaxy was discovered by William Herschel in 1785; it would easily have made Charles Messier's list, but somehow he missed it during his searches.

NGC4565 is likely a barred spiral and our own Milky Way galaxy may have a similar appearance if viewed from outside along the galactic plane at a similar distance. Assuming the 40 million light years distance is accurate, NGC4565 would have a diameter of about 100,000 lights years, which is similar to diameter estimates for the Milky Way.

The field surrounding NGC4565 contains many faint galaxies; the brightest, which appears at the top of my image, is NGC4562. There is a very faint cluster of galaxies located just off the right tip of NGC4565 in my image.

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	4698432
PixInsight job	NL5K80VA55INVJ1CVGJXQV5VXDC7NNKV
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RA (center)	12h36m21s.133
RA (top/left)	12h34m25s.669
RA (top/right)	12h37m19s.340
RA (bottom/right)	12h38m16s.674
RA (bottom/left)	12h35m22s.867

Dec (center)	+25°59′44″.78
Dec (top/left)	+25°56′21″.87
Dec (top/right)	+25°37′03″.56
Dec (bottom/right)	+26°03′01″.89
Dec (bottom/left)	+26°22′24″.34

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