Hickson Compact Group 43

Hickson Compact Group 43
HCG 43

Hickson Compact Group 43 is over 500 million light years away in Sextans. The individual galaxies are quite small in the field of view. The overall field contains a great many background galaxies some of which exceed 2 billion light years in distance.
Imaged in LRGB on our Planewave CDK 1000 at Observatorio El Sauce, Chile.
Image Processing: Mike Selby

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