Just slightly left of the middle of the picture is Maffei 1. Standing at 10 mln lightyears distance, it should be one of the brightest galaxies in the sky. It is obscured however by the Milky Way, which blocks 99% of its light. This is the reason that it took until 1968 before an Italian astronomer Paolo Maffei discovered it on one of his infrared astrophotographs. On the right is a small part of the "Heart and Soul nebula", but that is well within our Milky way. This picture was shot using my 200mmF5 Newtonian reflector, it is a combination of 10 20min exposures
This picture is zoomed in on Maffei 1. I also inverted the picture to show more detail of its outer regions.
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