This beautiful and vary rarely imaged, lenticular galaxy in southern Virgo, is one of largest and most massive galaxies in the Virgo Super cluster of galaxies. We view it almost perfectly edge on, so while it appears only about one arc min in thickness, in this very deep image, NGC 5084 spans almost 17 arc min of the sky, which, at an estimated distance of 80 Million light years, means it is nearly 400,000 light years in diameter, which in anyone's book, is one seeeriously gigantic galaxy!
I have a new favourite little galaxy too ...the Cheese Burger Galaxy just under the outer reaches of NGC 5084 left side.
I was lucky to get some decent seeing for much of this capture, my autoguiding errors were sitting at +/- 0.2 arc sec for most of two of the three nights! the third night was nearly as good.
Just a question Mike (!!), is the central portion supposed to be that yellow, or is that artistic license? None of the renditions I've seen show a vibrant yellow core.
Great view Mike. Welcome back.. enjoyed the cheese burger also btw.
Thanks Pete, I'm a quarterpounder guy myself
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Originally Posted by Atmos
There is a few nice and interesting galaxies scattered throughout that field Mike
The main galaxy is an interesting one, that's for sure!
I agree Col, I shot this galaxy back in 2013 at much wider FOV with the AG12 and 16803 chip but this latest effort has better resolution through twice as fine image scale
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Originally Posted by Placidus
Oh wow, such a galaxy and such an image! Such hawks, such hounds, and such brave men.
The guiding figures were remarkable, and imply pretty good seeing. The depth and colour are all your own!
Inspired by your image, 5084 is now on the "must do" list.
Thanks chook masters, bet that list is pretty long....
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Originally Posted by Andy01
Well done Mike - great image & always a pleasure to see something new!
Thanks Andy, indeed
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Originally Posted by topheart
Hi Mike,
Andy's comments are spot on!!
Awesome!
Cheers,
Tim
On ya Timmy
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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies
Out. Standing.
Just a question Mike (!!), is the central portion supposed to be that yellow, or is that artistic license? None of the renditions I've seen show a vibrant yellow core.
Thanks Marcus, I was happy with how this one came together, can't beat good seeing As for the yellow core, well, prob just dealers choice I recon.. showing my Tony Hallas side ...Adam Blocks shot with the Schulman 32" RC scope on 9000ft Mt Lemmon, is pretty yellow though
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Originally Posted by alpal
Nice photo Mike,
that's a rare one that I haven't seen before.
What is the galaxy name just below on the right hand side?
Is it a companion galaxy?
cheers
Allan
Thanks Al, dunno...? at work so haven't got my star atlass
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Originally Posted by markas
Great image of 5084! The time you've given it certainly has paid off. That
detail doesn't come easily.....
A rare image, haven't seen that one before. Nicely done. It looks like a small elliptical and spiral merged with that central dome. A bit like M104 The Sombrero.
A rare image, haven't seen that one before. Nicely done. It looks like a small elliptical and spiral merged with that central dome. A bit like M104 The Sombrero.
Greg.
Thanks mate, I agree, the galaxy certainly evokes M104 feelings, undale undale aribba arriba.
Very cool target, Mike; I don't recall seeing this one before.
I'd like to say that you've done an amazing job... but... I have no basis for comparison
Seriously though, I had a quick poke around and there's not many images of this. I found one, apparently captured with a 32in RC (RCOS) in the Mount Lemmon observatory and yours compares very favourably.
Edit: ha, I guess it pays to read the comments as well as the original post ;-)
Very cool target, Mike; I don't recall seeing this one before.
I'd like to say that you've done an amazing job... but... I have no basis for comparison
Seriously though, I had a quick poke around and there's not many images of this. I found one, apparently captured with a 32in RC (RCOS) in the Mount Lemmon observatory and yours compares very favourably.
Edit: ha, I guess it pays to read the comments as well as the original post ;-)
Ha ha...yeah it isn't imaged by too many at all, hardly any in fact, as you discovered. This is surprising really, because I thought it a pretty spectacular looking galaxy, for an edge on baby and at 17 arc min long it's pretty big. Thin galaxies can often be somewhat boring but I think its size, the bright flaring haloed core area, with the thin but fanning edge on arms and slightly billowing ends, makes for a unique and very speccy looking galaxy
So we now know its name: PGC 46489.
The distance of NGC 5084 is 80 million ly.
see here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_5084
The distance of PGC 46489 is 58 million ly.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGC_46489
Therefore it's not a companion or satellite galaxy like our LMC
or Andromeda's M110 or NGC 205 galaxy.
However it could be gravitationally bound as are many galaxies in that direction.
Excellent shot of NGC5084 and those background galaxies Mike. I think I will have to add that to my bucket list, although, with so many galaxies out there the list is pretty long already.