I'm spellbound by this image. Excellent reprocess.
That edge-on galaxy at top left is excellent! Also, I don't know if it's just me, but, if I look at my screen at a certain orientation, I notice a blur towards the left of the bright star at the extreme right of frame. It's not an artifact of my screen, either, as I changed the size of my browser window and moved it across the screen -- the blur remains!
Thank you very much everyone - yes, an APOD, and I sent it the same time as I posted it to IIS, so NASA posted it almost immediately.
H - you have a very sharp eye, and I did not notice that until I also looked at the image at an angle.
I can now confirm that is PGC 74728, a mag 18.5 galaxy, and the one below it (almost a pinpoint) is PGC 643572, mag 18.7. I stretched that a bit more, JPG attached.
Very nice Martin. I am sure I can see faint blue stars just in front of the central bar. They look like strings of blue stars. An excellent image with lots to see that is really nice.
