That is an incredibly beautiful image. Razor sharp everywhere including
background details. It is hard to believe Messier missed that one unless it is
just too thin being on-edge like that. Beautiful galactic bulge, and the glow
surrounding the entire disc. Now if we could only see the dark matter halo,
that would really be terrific!
As usual, I enjoy the background details as much as the main subject. Amazing
detail, and a huge number of stars and other galaxies. It reminds me of the
Hubble deep field images. Great image - that will be my laptop background for
the next couple of months.
There are two objects that look like idealized comets. One is about 8:00 below
the bulge, and the other is right of center of the image about 23% down from
the top. What are those?
Terrific image. Thanks for sharing with us.
Rob
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From: az-observing-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <az-observing-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On
Behalf Of Brian Skiff
Sent: Tuesday, June 4, 2019 2:41 PM
To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [AZ-Observing] NGC 4565 with DCT
DCT telescope operator extraordinaire Andrew Hayslip took a four-color series
of NGC 4565 recently while training a new operator. I've copied the image here:
ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/bas/Needle.jpg
Andrew sez: "The data was reduced, stacked, and colorized in PixInsight, and
comes from the B (420s x 3), V (100s x 3), R (100s x 3), and I (100s x 3)
filters."
...so more typical exposures of those with smaller telescopes, rather than ones
of just a few seconds. NGC 4565 is superposed on a dense background of tiny,
very faint galaxies, which are visible by the thousand in this image. Not to
mention the resolved starclouds in NGC 4565 itself.
\Brian
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