I captured this back in 2021 with my 16" dob, but just processed the data recently. I did a deep dive on some of the objects in the image to see which were associated with each other. As it turns out, NGC 5613 is about 210 million light years beyond NGC 5615 (Arp 178) and so they aren't associated with one another. On the other hand, little NGC5615 seems to indeed be a small satellite galaxy of NGC 5615 as it is at about the same distance. NGC 5613 appears to be about the same distance (390 million light years) as the edge on galaxy in the lower right, UGC9224 (PGC 51426).

I tried to focus on bringing out the inner dust ring and intertwined ring of star forming regions around the AGN core of NGC5614. There wasn't enough data to show the outer dust ring that shows up in some other images. Maybe I'll try to get a deeper image sometime!

Interestingly, there seems to be only one galaxy in the image (NGC 5609) between 390 and around 2 billion light years where there seem to be numerous galaxy clusters. Its as if there is a 1.5 billion light year void behind the brighter foreground galaxies. See rev B for more details on the objects in the image. I have color coded them to indicate distance, with redder being farther away.

The most distant named galaxy with a good redshift measurement that I could find is SDSS J142459.29+345510.9, which is a remarkably bright AGN (active galactic nucleus) galaxy despite being around 4 billion light years away. The more distant objects are all quasars, while the nearest object labeled is a white dwarf.

Each of the seven 480 second subs were live-stacks of 320 x 1.5 second exposures.

Brightest and largest objects:
NGC5614 (Arp178)
Galaxy (Sa), 2.53 x 2.95 arcmin (156 kly across)
Mag 11.05(V)
181 mly (z=0.013071)
Abs Mag=-22.67 CI(B-V)=1.55

NGC 5615 (Arp178)
Galaxy (Ir), 12 x 11 arcsec (11 kly across)
Mag 15.97(V)
184 mly (z=0.013274)
Abs Mag=-17.79 CI(B-V)=-0.97

NGC 5613
Galaxy (S ABa), 1.39 x 0.92 arcmin (158 kly across)
Mag 14.41(V)
390 mly (z=0.02830)
Abs Mag=-20.98 CI(B-V)=1.59

UGC 9224 (PGC 51426)
Galaxy (Spiral), 5.1 x 58 arcsec (112 kly across)
Mag 17(B)
396 mly (z=0.028773)

SDSS J142437.52+345059.2 (2MASS J14243750+3450590 )
Galaxy, 38 x 35 arcsec (72 kly across)
389 mly (z=0.02829)

SDSS J142342.15+344816.7
Galaxy, 6.6 x 12 arcsec (28 kly across)
Mag 17.54(SDDS g mag)
484 mly (z=0.03528)
Abs Mag=-18.32

NGC 5609
Galaxy, 19 x 19 arcsec (124 kly across)
Mag 14.65(V)
1.334 bly (z=0.10058)
Abs Mag=-23.41

Nearer objects:
Gaia DR3 1479848921917399168
White Dwarf Candidate
Mag 19.47(V)
1,353±145.4 ly
Abs Mag=11.41

SDSS J142444.63+345311.2
Galaxy, 11 x 11 arcsec (4 kly across)
Mag 18.17(V)
84 mly (z=0.00600)
Abs Mag=-13.88
This is an odd, small, low surface brightness galaxy.

Most distant galaxy with known redshift:
SDSS J142459.29+345510.9 ([KEC2012] 216.247145+34.919734)
Galaxy (AGN), 5.1 x 5.1 arcsec (102 kly across)
Mag 20.30(V)
4.153 bly (z=0.359)
Abs Mag=-20.23

Most distant objects (Quasars):
SDSS J142348.11+345608.1
QSO (SDDS g mag)
Mag 21.32(V)
12.162 bly (z=2.809842)
Abs Mag=-21.54

SDSS J142400.60+344620.8
QSO
Mag 20.51(V)
9.840 bly (z=1.403124)
Abs Mag=-21.89

Groups of galaxies at around 2 billion light years away:
SDSS J142332.15+345119.2
Galaxy (SDDS g mag), 6.9 x 4.0 arcsec (58 kly across)
Mag 18.29(V)
1.730 bly (z=0.13263)
Abs Mag=-20.33

SDSS J142425.14+345243.2 (PGC 2055993)
Galaxy, 7.0 x 5.2 arcsec (70 kly across)
Mag 18.86(V)
2.061 bly (z=0.16036)
Abs Mag=-20.14

SDSS J142346.22+345515.6
Galaxy (brightest in cluster), 6.1 x 6.1 arcsec (64 kly across)
Mag 20.825190(G)
2.181 bly (z=0.17062)

SDSS J142355.86+345659.9
Galaxy (SDDS g mag), 13 x 13 arcsec (135 kly across)
Mag 18.50(V)
2.208 bly (z=0.17289)
Abs Mag=-20.65

SDSS J142409.51+344433.1 (WISEA J142409.52+344433.1)
Galaxy (Spiral?), 9.1 x 6.4 arcsec (101 kly across)
Mag 16.64(V)
2.277 bly (z=0.17889)
Abs Mag=-22.58

SDSS J142423.33+344908.0  (PGC 3560593)
Galaxy, 10 x 10 arcsec (111 kly across)
Mag 18.65(V)
2.264 bly (z=0.17774)
Abs Mag=-20.56

WISEA J142407.93+344447.1
Galaxy (Spiral?), 12 x 3.6 arcsec (128 kly across)
Mag 19.15(V)
2.282 bly
Abs Mag=-20.07

SDSS J142443.92+345315.7 ([KEC2012] 216.183112+34.887724)
Galaxy (AGN)
Mag 21.242107(G)
2.427 bly (z=0.192)