Ngc 6872 is an interesting galaxys located in the southern constellation Pavo (The Peacock). It is comparatively distant, almost 300 million light-years away. It extends over more than 7 arcmin in the sky and its real size from tip to tip is thus nearly 750,000 light-years. It is in fact one of the largest known, barred spiral galaxies. It is of type SBb and is accompanied by a smaller, interacting galaxy, IC 4970 of type S0shown above in this image. The galaxy's elongated shape might have something to do with its continuing collision with the smaller galaxy IC 4970. Of particular interest is NGC 6872's spiral arm on the upper left,  which exhibits an unusually high amount of blue star forming regions.
The light we see today left these colliding giants before the days of the dinosaurs, about 300 million years ago.

 Also of note is the larger elliptic galaxy Ngc 6876 (below left from Ngc6872), next from the left of this is Ngc 6877, also an ellip[tic galaxy. Further to the left, Ngc 6880, a spiral galaxy & Ic 4981, an irregular galaxy.

 Conditions- Average seeing and transparency when taking the lum. When taking the colour set, the evening had exceptional seeing and transparency.  FWHM's were very low!