Tuesday, 22 April 2025

NGC 4565 The Needle Galaxy and the much dimmer Galaxy NGC 4562

 

The Needle Galaxy in the Constellation Coma Berenices.
Seestar S30 in EQ mode. 45x 30 sec subs.
Image Credit: Pip Stakkert.

Credit: Astrometry Net

"Only captured 45 subs as the moonlight was a problem. The Needle Galaxy is estimated to be between 30 and 50 million light years distant from Earth. It is a spiral galaxy, some 176 light years across, with an obvious central bulge". - Kurt Thrust current Director of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.

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