Needle Galaxy NGC4565

The Needle galaxy (NGC4565, Caldwell38) is located in constellation Coma Berenices and about 40 lightyears away from Earth. It's an edge-on spiral galaxy and a member of the Coma I group.

Image was taken on April 3 with the Moon 95% illuminated. These condiations were not ideal and next time I will not take images near the full moon.

Setting: TAL200K f/8.5, ASI2600MC, Guidingscope 50x229 with ASI224MC on EQ8R-Pro

Lights: 31x300s (bin2x2 , -10°C), Flats, Darks and Bias

Software: ASIair Plus, APP, CS4, DeNoise AI

1 Year to go: Total Solar Eclipse April 8 2024

 One year from now, on April 8, 2024, the next total solar eclipse in northern America will be visible. 

See also this link to Total Solar Eclipse 

Full "Pink" Moon

 

Image of the April full moon on April 5; April full moon is also called the "Pink" moon. 

Setting: TAL200K f/8.5, ASI2600MC, Guidingscope 50x229/ with ASI224MC
Software: ASIair Plus, CS4

Venus-Mercury

Twilight of April 3, 2023 (UT19h11) with Venus and Mercury.

Setting: Nikon D7500, 32mm

Venus and Uranus

 

Venus and Uranus on March 30, 2023. Some high clouds and I did some experiments getting spikes.

Setting: Nikon D7500, 200mm f/5.6, ISO3200, exposure time 1s.

Software: Photoshop CS4

Double Rainbow

 

A double rainbow above the Demer River in Langdorp (Aarschot)

Mars with Open star cluster M35

 

This week Mars is near open star cluster M35. On April 25, 2021 I could observe and image this same situation - see this link.

Setting : Nikon D7500, f/5.6, 200mm, ISO10.000 exposure 2s. Editing using CS4, single shot.