Luminous objects associated with the 7.06\arcsec\ separation double quasar
Q2345+007 have, until now, escaped detection. In this letter we present the
results of the deepest known imaging of the region surrounding the quasar. The
total exposure times were 47600 seconds in Bjβ (101 frames) and 32160 seconds
in R (82 frames). The frames came from CFHT, CTIO, and KPNO. We detect a Bjβ
= 25.0 mag galaxy (Bjβ -- R = 0.5 mag) in close proximity to the fainter QSO
image, possibly at z=1.49 given by several absorption features in the QSO
spectra. Furthermore, there is a 2.9Ο enhancement in the number density
of faint galaxies (24β€ Bjββ€28, Bjββ R β€1.5) near the
quasar and another 3.1Ο enhancement further away. These discoveries
support the hypothesis that Q2345+007 is being lensed by one or more distant
mass concentrations and may imply that compact ``clusters'' already exist at
early epochs. We discuss several lens models for the system and the
cosmological implications.Comment: (uuencoded compressed postscript