The color image shown at right was NOT taken with the Hubble Space Telescope!  It was actually produced by the 6.5 meter Magellan Clay Telescope with the MagIC CCD camera.  It is a combination of three single-color frames: a 5 hour exposure in the u' band (300-400 nm), a one hour exposure in g' (400-550 nm) and one hour in r' (550-700 nm).

    After "zooming" out (white square), an image of the moon to shown to scale provides a sense for the level of detail seen in deep images of "blank" sky.  I obtained this images in August 2005 to study faint galaxies toward the direction of a distant quasar (the bright object just below and to the right of center).  There are one or perhaps two stars in this image; all other objects are galaxies.

    The image quality of this composite is slightly better then 0.5 arcseconds FWHM, and galaxies are visible to >27th magnitude.  This is among the deepest images obtained with Magellan.