Galaxy NGC7331 in Pergasus

This is a highly tilted Sb type of spiral galaxy with heavy dust lanes. The distance to this galaxy is about 50 million light years with a radius of 32,000 light years.

In the upper right of this image is a grouping of remote galaxies claaed Stephan's Quintet. It consists of the five galaxies NGC7317, NGC7318A and B, NGC7319, and NGC7320. There are also several galaxies below NGC7331. This whole area is called the Deer Lick group.

Images taken with TEC-140 Telescope mounted on Losmandy G11 mount. Camera used was a Canon EOS20D used at prime focus.

Fifteen 3 minutes exposures dark compensated, aligned and stacked, background removed and Digitaly Developed in ImagesPlus 2.75 beta 2d.