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Top to bottom are: face on spiral NGC 5985, elliptical NGC 5982 and edge on spiral 5981. The trio is between 100 and 140 million light years distant. This field has numerous small background galaxies.
Imaging Camera: QSI640wsg
Imaging Scope: Celestron 9.25"Edge HD at f/7
Guide Camera: SX Lodestarx2
Mount: Avalon M-Uno Fast Reverse
Filters: Astrodon Gen II LRGB
Exposure: 300 min Lum, 5min subs binx1, 100 min each RGB, 2.5 minute subs binx2.
Capture: APT
Processing: CCD Stack and PS CC
Date: 5/20/20- 5/21/20
Sky conditions: Below average seeing, bortle white skies, SQM 17.8 mag/arc-sec2
Location: My front driveway. Morristown, NJ