Luminance only, 60 seconds subexposures, 10 stacked shots. FITS Liberator, Paint.NET. North is up; east is left.
M59 aka NGC 4621 is big and bright with a fantastically bright core. It is oriented north-west, twisted slightly to the west or clockwise in this image.
To the north, and slightly west, a good distance away is a very faint round lint ball. This is LEDA 1398556.
IC 3665 lies to the south-west, a large diffuse fuzzy.
To the north-west is an elongated patch, oriented north-south. I believe this is LEDA 1398085. SkyTools 3 Pro also shows PGC 42679 here but it is opposed, oriented east-west. I don't see another galaxy here.
Nearby, further west, is the bright round diffuse galaxy IC 809.
Due north of 809 is a faint oblong but large fuzzy: PGC 42634.
The glow at the bottom-left corner of the image is NGC 4638...
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Wikipedia link: Messier 59.
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