NGC 5005 is a very massive spiral galaxy that is believed to have a supermassive black hole in its nucleus. NGC 5005 is classified as a Seyfert galaxy due to its very active nucleus. Also shown in this image is IC 4211 - another spiral galaxy.

In this photo, North is up. This image is cropped to 60% of the original full frame.

Exposure Details
Lens	Celestron C-8 SCT with Lumicon telecompressor
Focal Length	1100mm
Focal Ratio	f/5.5
Mount	Schaefer GEM - 7 1/2
Guiding	Unguided
Camera	Canon 20Da
Exposure	197 subexposures of 45 seconds each at ISO 1600 - just under 2 1/2 hours total
Calibration	30 darks, 30 flats, 30 bias
Date	May 7, 2011 and May 27, 2011
Temperature	51F on 5/7, 46 on 5/27
SQM Reading
Seeing	3 of 5 on 5/7, 4 of 5 on 5/27
Location	Pine Mountain Club, California
Software Used	Images Plus 4.0 for camera control, calibration, stacking, digital development, smoothing and Lucy-Richardson deconvolution. Photoshop CS5 used for color correction, levels and curves, high pass filter, star shrinking and saturation adjustments.. Carboni Actions for additional saturation adjustments, local contrast enhancement and noise reduction, Gradient Xterminator used for gradient removal, HLVG for green removal.
Notes	At the time I photographed this object, my telescope's collimation was not that good. As such, I didn't capture as much detail as I would have liked. I did a lot of processing to pull out as much detail as possible. While I was modestly successful, the additional processing left some noisy artifacts in the main galaxy.