Hi Bert & Chris,
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Originally Posted by Screwdriverone
I was just taking a look at your image again and I noticed that it seems you have captured a Fourcade-Figureoa object as mentioned and pictured in AS&T May/June 2009 (page 66) in Les Dalrymple's Deep Sky Delights column - ESO 270-17! [Excellent column by the way, Les, alas my subscription has run out......hint hint.....  ] |
Yep, it is ESO 270-17 without doubt. You have also captured the NGC 5090 group of galaxies. You can see them as one small, merged but slightly elongated blob at about the 2-o'clock position from NGC 5128 just beyond a 7th magnitude star.
BTW, the "NASA" image in the magazine is a digitised scan of the Schmidt survey plate (DSS) -- sometimes that's all that is available you know ...
Best,
Les D