AP#50 : NGC 4559
Name: No Name
Constellation:Coma Bernices
Instrument: 6-inch F5 reflector with sky watcher coma corrector and a modified Canon T3i.
Exposure time: A stack of 16 five-minute exposures at ISO 800.
Star Chart from Michael Vlasov's Deep sky hunter star atlas available on line https://www.deepskywatch.com/deep-sky-hunter-atlas.html
Magnitude: 10.4
Angular size: 10.7' X 4.4'
This galaxy is large with a bluish tint to it. It is an intermediate spiral galaxy that is near edge-on. It has a blue variable star that undergoes frequent supernova-like outbursts. Many of these are around magnitude 16-17 and are not that spectacular.
