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Michael A. Stecker
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NGC 4565 "Needle Galaxy"
Larger than our own Milky Way, NGC 4565 has about one trillion stars. It appears as an edge-on barred spiral galaxy 30 to 50 million light-years from Earth in the cobstellation Coma Berenices. file: NGC4565-comp230savgX46-Cel935f7-32023x1r&cr1a1-nsfl-2.jpg Photographic Data imaging telescope: Celestron 9.25-inch EdgeHD SCT at f/7 (focal length 1,650 mm)
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SVBony 60 mm f/4 (FL= 240 mm) guide scope with ZWO ASI662 guide camera (2.97 pixels) . mount: iOptron GEM45 camera: ZWO ASI533MC-Pro one-shot color astro-camera cooled to14-degrees F with Optalong L-Pro filter . exposures: 240 seconds X 45 (3-hours) . photographic site: West Los Angeles |
