Here is an image that appears to contain more galaxies than stars. The most peculiar object is Arp 224 (= NGC 3921). In the catalogue given out Dr. Halton C. Arp between 1961 and 1966, named the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, Arp 224 was classified it as a "galaxy with amorphous spiral arms". The odd shape of this object could be the result of two merging galaxies. It is located 280 million light years away in Ursa Major. There are very few images of Arp 224 on Astrobin.
The galaxy near the bottom of the image is NGC 3913, a 12.8 magnitude spiral galaxy some 46 million light years from us. It is also very rarely imaged.
In Gary Imm's description of his image of this area (
https://www.astrobin.com/medktn/) he pointed out that the orange elliptical just below Arp 224 is PGC 2491113, the brightest galaxy in a cluster of galaxies known as Zwicky Cluster 1148.6+5523, one billion light years away.
I took this image with the Margareta Westlund Telescope in southern Spain, owned by the Swedish Amateur Astronomical Society and accessible remotely to its members.
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