Astro: Ngc 5068/5084

I rarely find time to process my images from Athos at La Palma but sometimes the improbable happens ;-)

NGC 5058 is a nice spiral in the southern part of Virgo. It's (virtual) neighbour NGC 5084 is the more spectacular one, I have never imaged such a strange edge on galaxy before. The "disk" is unusually broad and very faint, while the bulge is very bright.

NGC 5084 is about three times further away than NGC 5068 (22 to 69 million lighyears according to Guide9) and still looks bigger, so it must be very large. Between those two is galaxy cluster Abell 1709, which according to this site
http://www.andromedagalaxie.de/html/...en_shapley.htm
is at 695 million lighyears distance.

Unfortunately I lost most of the data from one of the two nights I had dedicated to this field because the autoguider lost the guidestar, most probably because of a cloud moving through.

Taken at Athos/La Palma with a Pentax 125 SDP (800mm focal length) and ASI 1600MM cool camera on an AZ-EQ6 mount, 21x5 min Lum, 11x5 min R, 10x5min G and 9x5min B. The picture shows the full fiel in full size, image scale is 0,98"/pixel.

As the image is too large for spacebanter.com I only post the link:
http://ccd-astronomy.de/temp12/5068-5084colourgut.jpg

Stefan