Rich "Widefield" Galaxy Starfield Near NGC 7331 (Dan Bartlett)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Pegasus (Peg) · Contains: HD214200 · HD214313 · HD214667 · NGC 7315 · NGC 7317 · NGC 7318 · NGC 7319 · NGC 7320 · NGC 7331 · NGC 7333 · NGC 7335 · NGC 7336 · NGC 7337 · NGC 7338 · NGC 7340 · NGC 7342 · NGC 7343 · NGC 7345 · Stephan's Quintet

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Rich "Widefield" Galaxy Starfield Near NGC 7331

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Rich "Widefield" Galaxy Starfield Near NGC 7331

While there were no bright comets to imaged in the middle of the night on October 20, 2022... I decided to target this galaxy field.

In the 1970's I was a proud owner of an Dynascope RV6 - 6" F/8 reflector. Well before any real hopes of performing astrophotography, I used that scope to star-hop to every interestingly bright object found in my catalogs and star atlases. NGC7331 and the nearby Stephan's Quintet was one such target. The spiral galaxy NGC 7331 was a beautiful sight as an easily seen bright elongated object (So bright that I wondered why, at the time, it wasn't included as a Messier object). I drifted over to see Stephan's quintet to see a very difficult patch of faint smudges and was satisfied at hunting the object(s) down.

Fast forward to October 20th, 2022 and with some time on my hands between evening and morning comets I realized NGC 7331 was nearly straight up only about 4 degrees from my zenith. Imaging with the RASA11" fast F/2.2 scope and a fairly large APS-C sensor of an astronomy cooled color camera I new I could grab over four hours with a fairly wide field.

Here are my results of that wonderfully clear evening.

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RA (center)	22h37m02s.90
RA (top/left)	22h40m26s.80
RA (top/right)	22h40m04s.18
RA (bottom/right)	22h33m32s.22
RA (bottom/left)	22h34m04s.63

Dec (center)	+34°36′46″.6
Dec (top/left)	+33°34′55″.9
Dec (top/right)	+35°41′45″.6
Dec (bottom/right)	+35°38′13″.6
Dec (bottom/left)	+33°31′24″.8

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