Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com)  ·  Contains:  IC 3531  ·  IC 3533  ·  IC 3536  ·  IC 3543  ·  IC 3546  ·  IC 3571  ·  IC 3582  ·  IC 3599  ·  NGC 4555  ·  NGC 4562  ·  NGC 4565  ·  Needle Galaxy  ·  PGC 1729518  ·  PGC 1731077  ·  PGC 1731333  ·  PGC 1732823  ·  PGC 1733771  ·  PGC 1734773  ·  PGC 1735520  ·  PGC 1736981  ·  PGC 1737860  ·  PGC 1740238  ·  PGC 1742871  ·  PGC 1743029  ·  PGC 1744406  ·  PGC 1746033  ·  PGC 1752031  ·  PGC 1755309  ·  PGC 1757504  ·  PGC 1760893  ·  And 23 more.
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Widefield of Needle Galaxy, KiwiAstro
Powered byPixInsight

Widefield of Needle Galaxy

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Widefield of Needle Galaxy, KiwiAstro
Powered byPixInsight

Widefield of Needle Galaxy

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

First time going after this object which is one of the most well known edge-on spiral galaxies. Magnitude cca 9.6 . A large dust lane cuts across the nucleus which blocks and gives a red tint to the light from the interior of the galaxy. It is about 40 million light year away.

This is a widefield view - a crop can be found here https://astrob.in/74u72c/0/.

Comments

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

Widefield of Needle Galaxy, KiwiAstro

In these public groups

Imaged with APT