NGC 7331 and Stephan's Quintet

[MartinB]

I captured this last week over a couple of evenings. Conditions weren't ideal with a lot of moisture in the atmosphere and light pollution but at least there was no moon.

These galaxies lie at the edge of the constellation of Pegasus. NGC 7331 is bottom left and is about 50million light years away. This and the small galaxies below are known at the Deer Lick Group. Stephan's Quintet is top right. The larger, slightly bluer galaxy in the group (NGC 7320) is much nearer to us than the others (approx 40 million light years) and is a line of sight association only. The others are 2-300 million light years away and gravitationally interacting with each other. This distances are pretty mind blowing!

Scope: Skywatcher MN190

Camera: QSI 532 wsg (integrated off axis guider) and SX Lodestar

Filters: Astronomic Type II LRGB plus IDAS LP filter

Lum 19x15 mins RGB each 19 x 2 mins binned x2

Captured, calibrated and combined with Maxim. Deconvolution in CCDStack and finished in PS

Deer Lick and Stephans Quintet LRGB.tif

[Hawklord]

Wow. Beautiful image.

[Beyond_Vision]

A beautiful image Martin, really nicely captured and processed. The detail in NGC7331 is superb.

Regards

Kevin

[rocketandroll]

Absolutely gorgeous.

Loads of detail in the galaxies... lovely star colour... and so many little fuzzie!

Love it.

Ben

[Fay]

Really lovely Martin! I must get going with some colour!!

Fay

[Stu]

Can only echo the previous comments, really lovely image, so much detail and so much to see apart from the main objects. I do like Stephan's Quintet

Cheers

Stu

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[ncjunk]

Lovely amount of detail in the Quintet. I really find it a pain to image as its so small and faint but you've done a great job.

[MikeD]

Stunning result martin, the galaxy colours are fantastic and the level of detail is awesome, one for the wall me thinks.

A Tiny red tint to the background on my screen But that may just be my screen.

Mike.

[SlipperySquid]

Beautiful image Martin, I am now obsessed with backgrounds and yours is exquisite! Now there's a word this poor northerner doesn't use very often! Unless I'm describing a sausage sandwich

Matt.

[MartinB]

Thanks everyone for the feedback

Stunning result martin, the galaxy colours are fantastic and the level of detail is awesome, one for the wall me thinks.

A Tiny red tint to the background on my screen But that may just be my screen.

Mike.

I've had another look and I think you are right although it is subtle. The levels don't suggest any red bias but moving the red 3 to the right blackens things up a little. Thanks Mike

Beautiful image Martin, I am now obsessed with backgrounds and yours is exquisite! Now there's a word this poor northerner doesn't use very often! Unless I'm describing a sausage sandwich

Matt.

Now that would be a good name for a nebula

[James]

Wow, I missed this one. The colour is amazing and it's a lovely view of a great patch of sky.

[AndyUK]

I can only repeat - Wow... A stunning piece of sky and you've framed and processed it superbly

[Moonshane]

when you start looking, this frame is packed with galaxies all over the place.

superb.

[peter shah]

another quality shot martin, beautifully processed

[petek314]

7331 is a favourite of mine. What a lovely very detailed image!

[Ant]

Beautiful image Martin.

The detail in 7331 and the others are amazing.

Cheers

Ant

[ollypenrice]

My, Martin, that's a classy one! Sharp, smooth, great star and galaxy colour, fine background... and a good write-up to boot!

(Edouard Stephan was director of Marseille Observatory not too far south of where we live and he used, I believe, a big Newtonian made by Foucault, of pendulum fame.)

Flawless image.

Olly

[foundaplanet]

Superb colours...excellent image.

[MartinB]

Thanks again guys for the comments

[prokyon]

One of the most beautiful galaxy constellations. You captured it very well!

[Yoddha]

Masterpiece!

[duncan.p]

Wow, fantastic image.......