SUNSET: 
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Photographer:
Jon Greif
Location of Photo:
Alpine, CA, USA
Date/Time of photo:
June 12, 2024, beween 10 pm and midnight PDT
Equipment:
ZWO Seestar S50 "smart" scope. Processing in Pixinsight 1.8.9.
Description:
NGC 4565 (also known as the Needle Galaxy) is an edge-on spiral galaxy about 40 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices, and 100,000 light-years across. It was first described in 1785 by William Herschel. It's very bright, which proved helpful as I only had about 2 hours of imaging 2 nights ago before the clouds moved in. NGC 4565 has at least two interacting satellite galaxies, one of which is faintly visible below and left of it in this image.
