Abell 779 is a galaxy cluster in Lynx. Sadly, there isn’t much readily available information on the cluster, but many of the galaxies have individual NGC catalog entries. The one with the largest apparent size in the center is NGC 2823 and there wasn’t info on that I could find either, other than Telescopius listed a red shift of 0.02.

Checking some of the other NGC entries turned up NGC 2826 which is listed with the same red shift and a distance of 297 million light years. The incredible distance explains why there isn’t much detail to be seen in these. galaxies. From my point of view, the mere fact that we can even see them makes them interesting though I admit that it doesn’t make for the most interesting image visually.

Still, even at that vast distance, we can make out the central bulges of spiral galaxies that are edge-on to us.

Here is a starless version of the image that gives a better view of the galaxies by themselves:

There may be a few very small galaxies that were removed with the stars but this shows the relationship of the galaxies to each other.

It’s a big universe out there and it is just full of galaxies!

This is 24h 5m of LRGB data. For all the technical details, see astrobin.