March also brought us many clear nights, because the famous Russia High, which sent clear and cold air from the east to us in northern Germany. Beside the currently popular galaxies I wanted to take a picture of a nebula region, which is located directly next to the cone nebula. In March, however, the region is already very deep at my location and disappears completely behind the roofs around midnight. That's why I split the nights in two objects during this session.
Beside the nebula area around the open star cluster NGC 2259 I chose with NGC 4559 a rather large but weak galaxy in Coma Berenices and at the end of the last half night still NGC 4565 - the beautiful and bright Edge-On galaxy.
Except for some minor technical problems, everything was stable and reliable during the many nights. I could also eliminate the annoying tilting at the Epsilon.
RGB raw image of NGC 2259:
H-Alpha:
RGB raw image of NGC 4559:
Luminance with CLS-Filter:
RGB raw image of NGC 4565:
And here the processed images:
Video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygQIvpyIyMQ
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