by Dave Mitsky
Here's a 110-second-long image of the tenth-magnitude, edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 4244 (the Silver Needle Galaxy) in Canes Venatici that I captured remotely on 4/11/2013 using the Bradford Robotic Telescope's 14" f/11 Celestron C14 SCT and FLI MicroLine camera located on Tenerife in the Canary Islands. A Celestron focal reducer yielding an effective focal length of 1877mm at f/5.3 was employed.
NGC 4244 is part of the M94 Group (the Canes Venatici I Group) and lies at a distance of some 6 to 14 million light years.
For more on NGC 4244, browse http://spider.seds.org/ngc/ngc.cgi?4244