A trio of galaxies including NGC5613, NGC5614 & NGC5615, in Bootes.
Spread across the background you can also see hundreds of fainter galaxies.
This image is a stack of 5 eight minute exposures
using an SXV-H9 CCD camera on a Vixen R200SS 8" f/4 Newtonian equipped with a Paracorr.
The exposures were calibrated, defect-corrected and stacked using AIP4WIN.
This image has been cropped down from its original size of 1383x1037.
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