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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NGC 7331, Deer Lick Cluster, and Stephan's Quintet, Molly Wakeling
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NGC 7331, Deer Lick Cluster, and Stephan's Quintet

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NGC 7331, Deer Lick Cluster, and Stephan's Quintet, Molly Wakeling
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NGC 7331, Deer Lick Cluster, and Stephan's Quintet

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This region of Pegasus has quite a few galaxies in it if you look closely. In the center of the frame is NGC 7331, which isn't actually gravitationally in the Deer Lick Group, but is actually in the foreground. NGC 7331 lies 47 million light years away, while the smaller-looking galaxies above it are 300+ million lightyears away.

To the lower-left of the image is Stephan's Quintet, another group of galaxies likely familiar to visual observers, which also lie about 200-300 million lightyears away.

Imaging in wideband under Bortle 7 is challenging, but I did manage to at least get some detail! I wound up having to toss quite a few frames from this dataset from poor transparency (and bad tracking on the AVX).

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NGC 7331, Deer Lick Cluster, and Stephan's Quintet, Molly Wakeling