Informations

The Needle Galaxy (NGC 4565) is an edge-on spiral galaxy about 30 to 50 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. It is known as the Needle Galaxy for its narrow profile. It is one of the brightest galaxies in the Coma I Group, and one of the most famous edge-on galaxies.

Photo details

📷 Camera: Nikon D7100

🔭 Scope: Paralux 114/900

🎯 Guiding: ZWO ASI 120mm mini monochrome + SVBONY SV106 guidescope

⚙️ Mount: Celestrong cg-5 goto

⏱ Exposure: 180s x 30

🌌 ISO: 800

🌇 Bortle: 7

🖥 Processing: DeepSkyStacker, Siril

Comments

I didn’t manage to get much of a good image, I like the old retro look it got, looking it was taken in the 80s. I learned how to fix the walking noise using dithering and I collimated my telescope.