NGC5084 and Friends

Managed to get this one looking OK after a lot of work to get rid of what I could of the light pollution from the Moon. My main target was ngc5084, on the right, but since there were some extras in the shot, I decided to get them into the FoV as well. Anyway, ngc5084, is the main galaxy of a smallish group, the ngc5084 Group, which is part of the Virgo II Groups string of small galaxy groups that hang off the southern end of the Virgo Supercluster. ngc5084 is on the extreme end of the string. A massive and very large galaxy, it weighs in at some 10^13 solar masses and is 217,773.25ly in diameter. Presently, it lies 80.5Mly (24.7Mpc) from our Galaxy. It's recessional velocity is around 1723km-s. It shines with an apparent mag of 10.5. It's Hubble Classification is SO, meaning it's a lenticular galaxy, which lies almost edge on to us in orientation (at an angle of 86degrees). Over to the far left is the galaxy ngc5087, which is part of the same group as ngc5084, though it lies slightly farther away at 85.32Mly (26.17Mpc) and has a recessional velocity of around 1832km-s. It is an elliptical galaxy (Class E) that is 57082.89ly in diameter and shines at 13.1mag. Roughly 40% of the way between ngc5087 and 5084, near the bottom of the pic, is the face on barred spiral galaxy ngc5068. A field galaxy (isolated galaxy not part of any group), it lies some 22Mly away and is 46076.65ly in diameter. Its Hubble Classification is SB(s)d, meaning it's a barred spiral with no ring structure and loosely wound spiral arms. Lying in between ngc5068 and 5087, along the bottom of the pic is the faint galaxy cluster Abell 1709. A moderate sized cluster of a few hundred galaxies, it lies at a distance of 219.76Mpc (716.41Mly) and has a recessional velocity of 15383km-s (0.0513c). One other galaxy also lies in this pic, at the right hand side of the foot of ngc5084, however, I haven't been able to find its catalogue identifier as of yet.

Pic was taken with t68 (iTelescope, NMSO), 10x3min subs.
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