NGC 5866 is a beautiful lenticular galaxy of visual magnitude 10.0 . It is seen almost exactly edge-on. The dark dust lane shows up easily in this image; it is tilted by about 2 degrees against the galaxy's symmetry plane.

This galaxy is situated in the northern constellation Draco at RA 15h 06.5, Dec +55d 46' (2000.0). It is the brightest member of the NGC5866 group, lying roughly 40 million light-years distant The 5.2' diameter of NGC 5866 correspondes to about 60,000 light-years, its globular cluster halo extends more far outward. No supernovae have been discovered in this galaxy yet.

This image was aquired with Astroart.  The Luminence frame was processed with AIP4WIN and the color frames were processed with Astroart.  Photoshop was used for final balancing and color combining.