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NGC 4517

I found this galaxy in Sue French’s wonderful Deep Sky Wonders book while looking for a suitable target for the 20″. With the summer twilight we didn’t get started on it until after midnight and got 15 1 minute exposures. Of these, 6 were rejected due either to car headlights or star trailing so the result could use a lot more exposure.

What atracted my attention was that it’s an edge on spiral (as opposed to the Virgo cluster’s usual ellipticals}, it’s fairly bright and it’s also large at 11′ long.

The sharp eyed will notice that the picture’s identification is NGC 4437. This galaxy appears to have two designations.

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