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Old 05-05-2017, 08:57 PM
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NGC7331 and little friends

Unbarred spiral NGC7331 in Pegasus and several other members of the NGC7331 group. Also some satellite dwarf galaxies, a very faint stellar stream and some IFN. The biggest of the satellite galaxies is PGC2051985, between 3 and 4 o'clock, which shows an obvious elongation in the direction of NGC7331. The rest are tiny smudges.

Because the weather is still crappy this is another remote image from Jim & Linda Powell's TEC 160FL/SBIG STL8300m at DSE in New Mexico. I added a little luminance from the RCOS 14.5" at DSW to improve the detail.

Jim & Linda TEC 160FL, DSW, captured 3-26 Oct 2016

Scope: TEC 160FL FL=1152.68mm (OTA #30/TEC-FF)
Mount: Paramount ME
Camera: SBIG STF-8300M
Filters: Astrodon Gen II LRGB, 5nm NB
Guiding: Lodestar/OAG
Focuser: Starizona Microtouch, FocusMax 4
Image scale: 0.966 arcsec/pixel (Drizzled up)
Exposures: 22x600s R, 20x600 G, 20x600s B, 66x600s + 9x900s L (~24 hours)
Processing: PixInsight 1.8

I tried to keep some of the faint stuff so the background is a bit furry and the stars are soft, but I kinda like that.

Big version at Astrobin: http://www.astrobin.com/294551/0/

Constructive criticism is always appreciated

Cheers,
Rick.
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