A trio of rarely imaged interacting galaxies in Libra consisting of NGC 5915 at the top, NGC 5916 lower left and NGC 5916A to the right.
NGC 5916 is a spiral galaxy and NGC 5915 is a starburst spiral galaxy with a bar and a number of hot spots. NGC 5916A has a poorly defined structure and has not been classified.
The NED data base estimates the distance from earth to be around 110 million light years.
Imaged in LRGB on our Planewave CDK 1000 at Observatorio El Sauce, Chile.
Image Processing: Mike Selby