NGC 4565 a.k.a Needle Galaxy

NGC 4565, a.k.a Needle Galaxy or Cadwell 38 an edge-on spiral galaxy of type SA(s)b ~30-50 million light-years away in Coma Berenices. The nature of its bulge remains unknow.

LRGB 4h 10m (14:11:12:13x300s) from CHI-1 Telescope, a Planewave CDK24 with QHY600M camera, and Astrodon 2nd GEN LRGB, situated in the Rio Hurtado Valley, Chile. Part of the telescope.live telescope network. Taken on multiple dates Feb-March 2023.

Processed in PixInsight. There was a weird issue with StarXterminator with this one. Unscreening the stars and then screening them back left weird artifacts.