Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Pegasus (Peg)  ·  Contains:  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 7343  ·  Stephan's Quintet
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NGC7331 - Wiedfeld, Darius Kopriva
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NGC7331 - Wiedfeld

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NGC7331 - Wiedfeld

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NGC 7331 Group is a visual grouping of galaxies in the constellation Pegasus. Spiral galaxy NGC 7331 is a foreground galaxy in the same field as the collection, which is also called the Deer Lick Group,. 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. 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.

The galaxy is quite small in the night sky. Unfortunately, even with my most powerful telescope, it was only enough for a widefield. But 750mm isn't much for galaxies either.

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