Deer Lick Group, NGC7331 (John Favalessa)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Pegasus (Peg) · Contains: NGC 7331 · NGC 7333 · NGC 7335 · NGC 7336 · NGC 7337 · NGC 7338 · NGC 7340 · PGC 141039 · PGC 2051985 · PGC 69281 · PGC 69291

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Deer Lick Group, NGC7331

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Deer Lick Group, NGC7331

What an oddly named group, so had to look it up: The collection of galaxies got its name after amateur astronomer Tom Lorenzin had a memorable view of it from the Deer Lick Gap, which lies in the mountains of North Carolina. OK with that I was a bit disappointed, but way to go amateur astronomers.

NGC7331 is 40MLY's away. The NGC neighbors are between 365 and 294MLY's away. I could not find any distance info on the PGC galaxies appearing. This was shot from my backyard...loving the 9.25HD! And good to shoot in LRGB again. I used Masked Stretch in Pix for the first time and was surprised by the detail that it brought out in ngc7331 compared to my using manual stretching or screen transfer or EZ soft stretch. It was like magic! I also elected not to set the background black point too low to not remove the dust that abounds. And I'm still learning to get better stars with an SCT.

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Description: Thanks Rodd! I forgot SCNR to remove some of the green!

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Description: Black point adjustment to make the galaxies pop (thanks Gary!). a bit of increased saturation on the mail galaxy.

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Description: HDR on the core (thanks George!) and backed off the saturation a bit.

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Astrometry.net job	5294397
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	22h37m06s.268
RA (top/left)	22h38m16s.740
RA (top/right)	22h38m17s.347
RA (bottom/right)	22h35m55s.436
RA (bottom/left)	22h35m55s.775

Dec (center)	+34°25′08″.40
Dec (top/left)	+34°07′35″.11
Dec (top/right)	+34°42′38″.19
Dec (bottom/right)	+34°42′38″.27
Dec (bottom/left)	+34°07′36″.35

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