Luminance only, 60 seconds subexposures, 10 stacked shots. FITS Liberator, Paint.NET. North is up; east is left.
The Hickson 10 target shows in many of my SkyTools 3 Professional observing lists, as far back as August 2014. I believe it gets automatically added in some situations by the Nightly Observing List Generator. But in all that time, I don't recall viewing it. It is a lovely grouping.
West of centre is the large elliptical galaxy NGC 529.
Just above, north-west of 529, is a very small oblong smudge. Another elliptical? That's LEDA 169778.
The bright star to the south is HR 410.
To the east-south-east of centre is a canted spiral of NGC 536. It has huge sweeping spiral arms fanning out into space, perhaps extended by gravity. Fantastic.
NGC 542 appears to the south-east of 536. It looks like an edge-on spiral.
North of 536 is a curious shape, almost rectangular. It is a canted spiral perhaps with a bright core. NGC 531. SkyTools says it is a barred lenticular.
There are many more small fuzzies in this image...
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