Friday 16 November 2012

NGC4565 and M64

NGC4565 The needle galaxy. This beautiful edge on spiral galaxy lies in the constellation
of Coma Berenices at a distance of about forty million light years. This image was taken
unguided, using an Atik 314L CCD camera through a ten inch, f/4.8 reflector. Sixty second
sub frames and matching dark frames were used, making a total exposure time of forty
minutes for each RGB colour filter:



M64 The Black Eye Galaxy . This image of M64  was taken unguided, using a ten inch, f/4.8
reflector.Sixty second sub frames and matching dark frames were used, making total
exposure times of twenty minutes for each RGB colour channel: