Which background galaxies are this?

At arms end I looked into the abyss, over to the other galaxies. And there I recognized some "spots" that I've never seen before. Since I'm pretty sure that some pilots have seen and identified this before me I'm just asking :)

Here is a picture with some features for orientation (I apologize for the low resolution but my screen is just TV from … well it's probably 10 years old now):
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The features of interest can't be seen in the above picture. Two of the system's stars are in the picture for further orientation. In the next picture the features can already be made out (albeit faintly):
757_unknown_2.png


And this is the best picture I can get with the limited resolution of my TV-screen:
757_unknown_3.png


The feature above the right arrow seems quite clearly to be a galaxy seen from the side. But which one is it?
The feature to the right of the left arrow is really hard to see in the images. On screen it looked like a star cluster, but in this region of space I can see just this area of higher star density (image from edastro):
757_unknown_4.png


Could it be that? Or would that be too far away (distance approx. 1600 ly).

Thanks for the help :)
 
It seems that we see the galaxy in the image directly from the side Maffei 2 comes close to that … so this is a great suggestion … but we can still see some of its disc.
 
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