NGC 4565 Needle Galaxy #4 (Molly Wakeling)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com) · Contains: IC 3533 · IC 3543 · IC 3546 · IC 3571 · IC 3582 · NGC 4562 · NGC 4565 · Needle Galaxy · PGC 169886 · PGC 1742871 · PGC 1743029 · PGC 1744406 · PGC 1746033 · PGC 1752031 · PGC 1755309 · PGC 1757504 · PGC 1760893 · PGC 1760926 · PGC 1762205 · PGC 1762887 · PGC 1768433 · PGC 1768901 · PGC 1770479 · PGC 1773649 · PGC 1774048 · PGC 2793674 · PGC 3096164 · PGC 3096166 · PGC 42038 · PGC 42060

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NGC 4565 Needle Galaxy #4

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NGC 4565 Needle Galaxy #4

Another from the (California) backyard - the Needle Galaxy! I've imaged this guy a few times before since it makes for a nice late winter/early spring galactic target for the large field-of-view of short refractor telescopes. Despite how big and bright it is, it was somehow missed by Charles Messier when he made his catalog.

The Needle Galaxy lies between 30-50 million lightyears away (a rather large uncertainty, actually) in the galaxy-stuffed constellation of Coma Berenices. It is actually a spiral galaxy that we are seeing edge-on, like looking at the side of a Frisbee.

Despite having nearly 19 hours of total exposure time, it still turned out rather noisier than I would hope. I'm finding the ZWO ASI294MC Pro to be a lot noisier than my 1600. A better one-shot color camera is somewhere in my future!

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RA (center)	12h36m21s.18
RA (top/left)	12h33m25s.92
RA (top/right)	12h39m05s.32
RA (bottom/right)	12h39m17s.58
RA (bottom/left)	12h33m35s.80

Dec (center)	+25°59′50″.1
Dec (top/left)	+25°36′40″.8
Dec (top/right)	+25°32′52″.4
Dec (bottom/right)	+26°22′46″.2
Dec (bottom/left)	+26°26′35″.9

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