One night in late March I was exploring Coma Berenices from my backyard in
Castro Valley and stumbled across this lovely barred spiral galaxy, NGC4725.
I managed to get several exposures completed before the clouds moved in, but
did not get as much as I wanted.
Then a month went by and I had actually forgotten that I had this data until
I was poking around my hard disk looking for something else and then
remembered I had shot this galaxy.
I spent a bit of time today trying to coax as much as I could from the
image, despite that it was sort of half full in terms of exposures.
Nonetheless it does reveal a nice barred spiral with a long "elephant trunk"
hanging off the top.
Since this is in prime observing position now, it may be of interest to some
of the folks on the list.
Two of its fainter galactic neighbors are also in the exposure, NGC4712 and
another that is not listed in "The Sky"
Since it is rainy out there and we are all craving some astro action, I post
this in hopes that someone will enjoy it.
http://www.rdcrisp.darkhorizons.org/ngc4725_page.htm
Clear skies!
Richard