Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Pegasus (Peg)  ·  Contains:  NGC 7317  ·  NGC 7318  ·  NGC 7319  ·  NGC 7320  ·  NGC 7331  ·  NGC 7333  ·  NGC 7335  ·  NGC 7336  ·  NGC 7337  ·  NGC 7338  ·  NGC 7340  ·  NGC 7343  ·  Stephan's Quintet
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NGC 7331 + Stephan's Quintet, Phil Creed
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NGC 7331 + Stephan's Quintet

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NGC 7331 + Stephan's Quintet

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NGC 7331 and friends, aka The Deerlick Group, is a frequent target of galactic imagers in the autumn months.  Besides NGC 7331, there are multiple satellite galaxies present in this image.  The brightest of which, NGC 7335, is a nice challenge objects for those with small telescopes or really big (100mm+) binoculars and dark skies.

Towards the right edge of the picture is the famous galaxy grouping Stephan's Quintet.  Theses are the galaxies whose still images appeared as angels in, "It's A Wonderful Life", and they certainly provided a wonderful target for the JWST.

I only had 1-1/2 hours on this, so I'd like to revisit this target and add to the data.  It did help I had a dark sky, so that 1.5 hours went much further than it would have at home under my Bortle 6 skies.

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NGC 7331 + Stephan's Quintet, Phil Creed