This lovely galaxy is NGC 5907, the Splinter Galaxy (also called the Knife Edge Galaxy). NGC 5907 is located more than 50 million light years away in the constellation Draco. This galaxy is seen almost perfectly edge-on from our line of sight. We see a very flat disk, laced with dark dust lanes, that appears extraordinarily elongated.
NGC 5907 has an anomalously low metallicity, meaning that it has very few chemical elements other than hydrogen and helium. It contains few detectable giant stars, being apparently composed almost entirely of dwarf stars - small, dense stars nearing the end of their lives. They eventually lose all their heat and ability to fuse elements, and get cold and dark.In 1940, a supernova exploded in this galaxy, designated SN 1940A.



Geek stuff: I captured this from my home observatory in central New Mexico.
- Scope: Celestron C11 EdgeHD @ f.7
- Camera: ASI 1600Mm Pro chilled to -15C
- Mount: iOptron CEM120 EC2
- Focuser/Rotator: Moonlite Litecrawler
- Guidance: Celestron OAG with Lodestar X2
- Filters: Baader CMOS LRGB filters
- Control: Kstars OSX on a MacMini
- Post Processing: Pixinsight

Images:

- Luminance: 96 x 3 minutes bin 1x1
- Red: 50 x 3 minutes bin 2x2
- Green: 56 x 3 minutes bin 2x2
- Blue: 70 x 3 minutes bin 2x2

Total integration: 13.6 hours

You don't do things by halves, do you? Very impressive! As usual, I might add.