NGC4565, The Needle Galaxy

Is described here in Wikipedia.

NGC4565 is an edge-on spiral galaxy about 30 million light years away in Coma Berenices.

I imaged it with the 16" Meade and SBIG ST-2000XCM one shot colour CCD camera. 9 frames of 5 minutes exposure were captured using CCDOPS software. This was also used to calibrate the light frames and to stack them into a final image which I then further processed in Photoshop CS3.