NGC4565

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NGC4565 is lovely. It is an edge on spiral galaxy in Coma Berenices. It is quite faint but is very long and split by dust lanes, rather like the Sombrero Galaxy M104 but much larger and prettier, showing a lot of detail. Strange then that M104 is a Messier object and NGC4565 isn't. Messier and Mechain missed this gem.