These are the interacting galaxies that give rise to the radio source Fornax A.  NGC 1316, the brightest member of the Fornax cluster of galaxies is about 55 million lightyears distant and shows dusty regions near the nucleus, reminiscent of Centaurus A.  Upon stretching of the image, the large distorted outer envelope can be seen to engulf neighbouring NGC 1317.  There is an interesting combination of two perpendicular bars in this smaller galaxy.  Click on the image for higher resolution.

Field of view is 37 x 25 arcminutes with north towards the right.