Amazing pair of galaxies, NGC3718 and NGC3729, that lies toward the Ursa Major constellation. The peculiar S-shaped disturbed look of NGC3718's arms is believed due to gravitational interaction with it's smaller companion, NGC3729.  Both of the galaxies are classified as barred spiral galaxies, but as seen from the image their look obviously differs their designation. One of the amazing features of NGC3718 is the twisted dust lane that is crossing the core of the galaxy. It does have an unusual look of some kind of swirled medallion with the pearl inside, as my wife says...

     Another interesting object is seen on this image just above the NGC3718. This is a smaller interacting group of 5 galaxies called Hickson 56 Group. This group lies much, much farther from us and its about 7 times farther than the NGC3718 and NGC3729 galaxies, which are approximately in a distance of 52 million light years.

     This field in the sky is very reach with even smaller and fainter galaxies. I have lost count of how many of them are seen in this image. There are literally dozens of them  and in Annotated version I marked most of the brightest and larger ones. Amazingly, going deep as 12 hours from desert skies allowed me to catch very faint galaxies, faint as 22g magnitude.

     This image was made in 4 nights during March and April 2017.