Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Pegasus (Peg)  ·  Contains:  NGC 7327  ·  NGC 7331  ·  NGC 7335  ·  NGC 7336  ·  NGC 7337  ·  NGC 7340
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NGC 7331 and Deer Lick Group, Roberto Marinoni
NGC 7331 and Deer Lick Group
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NGC 7331 and Deer Lick Group

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NGC 7331 and Deer Lick Group, Roberto Marinoni
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NGC 7331 and Deer Lick Group

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NGC 7331 is a spiral galaxy visible in Pegasus constellation: it is 46 million light years away from the Milky Way and it is larger than it (about 140000 light years vs. 100000).
It shows itself with an high inclination of 77°, so part of the disc is blocked by broad dust lanes.
In the lower side of the image, “under” the disk of NGC 7331, there is a group of several other galaxies which are about 6.5 times more distant than NGC 7331, so they appear here only for a matter of perspective: this group is referred to as “Deer Lick Group” and includes the lenticular galaxy NGC 7335 and NGC 7336, the barred spiral galaxy NGC 7337 and the elliptical galaxy NGC 7340.
Several other remote galaxies are anyway visible in the field, as well as a faint IFN on the right side of the image.

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NGC 7331 and Deer Lick Group, Roberto Marinoni