This cluster of galaxies is >500 million light years away in Hercules. I count four Arp galaxies in this frame alone. It's like a managerie of galactic curiosities. This was a lot of fun to shoot.
I confess to not knowing this was here or that I could even image such a distant cluster. I was looking for an interesting target in Hercules, or at least eastern Bootes. I saw a galaxy in SkySafari, NGC 6045A, that had an interesting description and figured, why not? Hmm. I should have shifted the scene slightly south. Oh, well. The subs for this image were taken in the dead of night, from 1 am to around 4. The air was super-still the first night. We have some good depth. The deepest stars here are dimmer than mag 18. This is 41x600" with the SXVF-H9 and Astronomik CLS filter through the Synta-ONTC 203mm f/4.95 Newt.
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