The left galaxy is ~39 million light-years away, the rest four galaxies are far far away than the left one, about 300 million light-years away, two of them are clearly entangled.
I can't explain the 80s feel, but my image does have similar quality compared to the 60s big telescope's image, like this one, it was taken by 200" Hale telescope at Palomar observatory, 50 years ago!
I'm working on another JWST target NGC 628, 30 million light-years away, a really beautiful 2-arm spiral galaxy perfectly face to us, I'm gonna share it when it's done!
This is cropped from a wide field image I took in September, a total of 8 hours of exposure using a mono camera with RGB filters, the less-cropped version is here.
I live downtown in a big city with severe light pollution, I was convinced broad band astrophotography is nearly impossible in a big city like mine, but apparently, with modern technology (hardware and software) it is possible to gather enough light in one night and separate them from light pollution to create an acceptable deep sky image, although it won't be as detailed as the image taken under a dark sky, but it's somewhat doable with a reasonable budget.
It is possible to take pictures of JWST's target using a home telescope in the city, this is my Stephan's quintet taken with an 8-inch telescope compare with JWST's image.
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The left galaxy is ~39 million light-years away, the rest four galaxies are far far away than the left one, about 300 million light-years away, two of them are clearly entangled.