NGC 7331 and the Deer Lick group which I always assumed was named after the Lick observatory but discovered that the group was named after the Deer Lick overlook where the late Tom Lorenzin made an observation of the group on a dark transparent night and coined the term, well you learn something everyday
I'm not completely happy with this image and would of like more data to reveal more of the outer details better but with no good clear nights in the past couple of months I'm leaving it with this version for now.
From Wikipedia:
NGC 7331 Group is a visual grouping of galaxies in the
constellationPegasus.
Spiral galaxyNGC 7331 is a foreground galaxy in the same field as the collection, which is also called the
Deer Lick Group,.
[1] It contains four other members, affectionately referred to as the "fleas”: the
lenticular or unbarred spirals NGC 7335 and 7336, the
barred spiral galaxy NGC 7337 and the
elliptical galaxy NGC 7340. These galaxies lie at distances of approximately 332, 365, 348 and 294 million light years, respectively.
[2] Although adjacent on the sky, this collection is not a
galaxy group, as NGC 7331 itself is not gravitationally associated with the far more distant “fleas”; indeed, even they are separated by far more than the normal distances (~2 Mly) of a galaxy group.
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