This is an irregularly shaped galaxy that is commonly known as the 'cigar' galaxy. It is classified as a Magellanic type barred spiral, which puts it in the same kind of category as the Large Magellanic Cloud.
At 7.2 million light years (or 2.2M parsecs) it's not quite in the local group, but nor is it believed to be in the Sculptor group of galaxies. It's stuck somewhere in between, along with it's mate NGC300.
I took this with a streetlight shining into the telescope :-( over two nights through the 16" ASA.
Processed in pixinisght using the new funky-chicken local normalisation and drizzle integration, a smidge of decon, then photometric colour calibration and lots of stretching and masking to try and get the background not blotchy.
high res on astrobin here. Comments and constructive criticism are welcome!
http://www.astrobin.com/full/314169/0/
cheers,
Andrew.