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.
Don't forget to
calibrate your monitor brightness/contrast for the best view
Giant galaxy NGC 5084 click on image and pan around with your cursor
To have a good look at the full resolution image go
HERE
Don't forget, most image capture details can be found under the image
Cheers
Mike