The tiny Circinus galaxy or ESO 97-13, known as well as PGC 50779, is a small Sayfert type II galaxy. According to the NASA site, it is quite interesting because it holds a massive black hole in the centre as well as one in the lower extreme of the galaxy, you can read about it in:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/nustar/multimedia/jpl/black-holes-of-circinus-20131126.htmlClouds make my hunt a bit more complicated but, at the end I manage to get 4 hours of images of it, also another complexity is that it is surrounded by a very intense background of stars, so I had to struggle a little to attenuate them, so the galaxy has a better border definition. You can see it at the Strasbourg data base (ALADIN) and see what I mean by that background.
The blue star above the galaxy is a double star RST 690.
In the field, the even smaller galaxy, the ESO 97 - 12, can be seen just as an small coffee milky dot among a bunch of stars.
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