"Galactic Campfire"
Honourable Mention - Amateur Deep Sky category, 2009 CWAS David Malin Awards

NGC 4945 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Centaurus. It is oriented nearly edge-on to us and is thought to be similar to the Milky Way.
It belongs to a small group of galaxies that includes NGC 5128 (Centaurus A) and M83 that lies around 13 million light years away.