If you feel like looking at some of my other images, learning about the targets, seeing what goes into making images like this, updates about my life, or want some lame astronomy memes, you should go check out my instagram
I'd also like to start off by saying a huge huge thank you to /u/astroslip for sending the data on over to me to fiddle around with. It was an absolute blast and a half. They have sent me a ton of data sets from the telescope, but this was by far a favorite. Just unreal to work with. It's not going to be fun to go back to my other images.
Magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 4565 is viewed edge-on from planet Earth. Also known as the Needle Galaxy for its narrow profile, bright NGC 4565 is a stop on many telescopic tours of the northern sky, in the faint but well-groomed constellation Coma Berenices. This sharp, colorful image reveals the galaxy's boxy, bulging central core cut by obscuring dust lanes that lace NGC 4565's thin galactic plane. An assortment of other background galaxies is included in the pretty field of view, with neighboring galaxy NGC 4562 at the upper right. NGC 4565 itself lies about 40 million light-years distant and spans some 100,000 light-years. Easily spotted with small telescopes, sky enthusiasts consider NGC 4565 to be a prominent celestial masterpiece Messier missed.
Source: APOD
Equipment:
4.3 m DCT Telescope
Large Monolithic Imager
Acquisition
Red – 3x100"
Green – 3x300"
Blue – 3x420"
Total integration time - 43 minutes (wow)
Taken from the Discovery Channel Telescope by /u/astroslip
Idontlikecock on June 2nd, 2019 at 11:44 UTC »
If you feel like looking at some of my other images, learning about the targets, seeing what goes into making images like this, updates about my life, or want some lame astronomy memes, you should go check out my instagram
I'd also like to start off by saying a huge huge thank you to /u/astroslip for sending the data on over to me to fiddle around with. It was an absolute blast and a half. They have sent me a ton of data sets from the telescope, but this was by far a favorite. Just unreal to work with. It's not going to be fun to go back to my other images.
Magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 4565 is viewed edge-on from planet Earth. Also known as the Needle Galaxy for its narrow profile, bright NGC 4565 is a stop on many telescopic tours of the northern sky, in the faint but well-groomed constellation Coma Berenices. This sharp, colorful image reveals the galaxy's boxy, bulging central core cut by obscuring dust lanes that lace NGC 4565's thin galactic plane. An assortment of other background galaxies is included in the pretty field of view, with neighboring galaxy NGC 4562 at the upper right. NGC 4565 itself lies about 40 million light-years distant and spans some 100,000 light-years. Easily spotted with small telescopes, sky enthusiasts consider NGC 4565 to be a prominent celestial masterpiece Messier missed.
Source: APOD
Equipment:
4.3 m DCT Telescope
Large Monolithic Imager
Acquisition
Red – 3x100"
Green – 3x300"
Blue – 3x420"
Total integration time - 43 minutes (wow)
Taken from the Discovery Channel Telescope by /u/astroslip
AlwaysLateToThaParty on June 2nd, 2019 at 13:03 UTC »
I love seeing all of the other galaxies all over the image. Great stuff.
TheSanityInspector on June 2nd, 2019 at 13:05 UTC »
Somewhere in there, alien redditors are ooh-ing and ahh-ing over gorgeous photos of our galaxy.