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NGC4565 - The Needle Galaxy
Gigantic edge-on spiral galaxy in Coma Berenices, twice as luminous as the Andromeda Galaxy.  40 million light-years from Earth. Satellite galaxy NGC 4562 is shown at lower right.

NGC4565 - The Needle Galaxy

Gigantic edge-on spiral galaxy in Coma Berenices, twice as luminous as the Andromeda Galaxy. 40 million light-years from Earth. Satellite galaxy NGC 4562 is shown at lower right.




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Filename:NGC4565_20150412_LRGB2.jpg
Album name:27telp / Galaxies
Location and Date:OCA site near Anza, CA, USA - 4/12/2015
Equipment:William Optics FLT-132 scope @f/7, QSI-583wsg CCD Camera, Astro-Physics 1200 GTO mount, Borg 50mm guide scope, QHY5L-II guide camera
Settings:Luminance - 11 exposures @ 6 minutes each, bin 1x1; Red, Green, Blue - 11 exposures @ 6 minutes each, bin 2x2
Notes:Captured with MaxIm DL 5.12, processed with CCDStack2, PixInsight 1.8.9 and Adobe Photoshop CS4
Filesize:878 KiB
Date added:Aug 01, 2022
Dimensions:1974 x 1540 pixels
Displayed:200 times
Color Space:Uncalibrated
EXIF Offset:254
EXIF Version:version 2.31
Image Description:NGC4565 - The Needle Galaxy
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Software:Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 11.4.1 (Windows)
X Resolution:240 dots per ResolutionUnit
Y Resolution:240 dots per ResolutionUnit
IPTC Copyright:Copyright J. L. Floyd 2022
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