Needle Galaxy
Needle
Description: Spiral Galaxy
Common Name: Needle Galaxy
Messier Catalogue: N/A
NGC: 4565
IC: N/A
Caldwell: N/A
Sharpless: N/A
Constellation: Coma Berenices
Size: 16.8 x 2.9 Arc Minutes
Visual Magnitude: +9.08
Distance: 38 Million Light Years
Camera: Canon EOS 1000D
Filter: Semi-APO
ISO: 800
Video: N/A
Light Frames: 10 x 180 Seconds
Dark Frames: N/A
Bias Frames: N/A
Flat Frames: N/A
Capture Program: BackYardEOS
Stacking program: DeepSkyStacker
Post Processing: PhotoShop CS3
Date Taken: 03/02/2019
Image Type: RGB
Dark Site?: No-Garden
Telescope: Altair StarWave 70ED
Diameter: 70mm
Focal Length: 420mm
Reducer/Flattener?: N/A
Mount Control: N/A
Mount: SkyWatcher EQ3-2
Guided?: Yes PHD2
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