Not trying to challenge you, but I'm an amateur astronomer. No offense intended, I was just clarifying terminology.

If you're interested, here's a couple of "intergalactic" images of my favorite galaxy, M104, known as the Sombrero Galaxy (sorry, I don't know how to post the image here directly as you did, so this is just a link): http://www.astr.ua.edu/gifimages/m104b.html

The Sombrero is about 45 million lightyears away from earth, and is moving away from us at about 625 km/s, faster than our fastest spacecraft.

I've never been able to see it in my own telescope because I'm too far north. The only time it's above the horizon here is in summer, when the sky is too bright to see astronomical objects.

Good topic, btw.