Markarian’s Chain, Part of the Virgo cluster. About 70 million light years distant and this would be the most remote object I have imaged to date, a relatively close neighbor on the cosmic scale of things. If you look closely at the picture you will notice many small, faint fuzzy objects. These are galaxies, they are just smaller or more distant. Therefore in this image there are literally trillions and trillions of stars represented. If you jumped into the family minivan and covered 1,000 miles per day you would arrive 20,000,000,000,000,000,000 years later. Put into a more “universal” scale of time, it would take a billion times the age of the universe to drive to the Virgo cluster. This is course approximate and I’m not taking into account restroom breaks or changing flat tires. Space is really big!
You will find a inverse black and white copy of this image in the gallery. I did this to more easily identify the small faint galaxies that litter this image. I have marked some of them while there are many others and I got bored. Basically anything that is a sharp well defined round point is a star, everything else is more than likely a galaxy.

Taken at Riverside Astronomical Society's dark sky site - GMARS, in Landers, CA
Scope: Vixen R200SS @ f4
Mount: Losmandy G11
Guiding: Wm Optics 80mm with Fishcamp Engineering Starfish camera
Camera: Modified Rebel XT
Exposure: about 2 hours worth
Captured with Images Plus with final processing in Photoshop