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Muafak Bisher
Majd El kurum, north district, Jerusalem

03/03/2023
11:20 pm

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Equipment Details:

Telescope skywatchers evostar 72ed
‏Camera: ZWO ASI071 mc pro
‏Mount: skywatcher AzEq6 pro
‏Guide camera: QHY 5iii 178 mc
‏Guide scope SVBONY 60/240m
Filter: L- optolong Enhanced

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This is 12 hours work time of collecting data of NGC4565 the needle galaxy with IC3571 irregular galaxy in the background.

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The Needle Galaxy is an edge-on spiral galaxy that lies about 39 million light-years away from Earth. You’ll find this beautiful galaxy in the northern constellation, Coma Berenices. The interesting thing that you can see an irregular galaxy IC 3571 that lies in the Coma Berenices constellation. IC 3571 is situated north of the celestial equator and, as such, it is more easily visible from the northern hemisphere, and its lies 58 million light years away.

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David Callejas, Marketing Director, helps bring EarthSky's content to the world via online ads and other products. He creates strategies that help people around the world find us and appreciate the work we do. He helps manage the EarthSky Store and bring to you the new products that you love. He's the chief liaison between EarthSky.org and the world of commerce. All that, plus he helps post content and populate our pages on Facebook, Google+ and Twitter. Go David!