This image is the result of over 7h of data capture, over five nights in August and September 2019.
NGC 7331 is 40 million lightyears distant and a similar size to the Milky Way, at 120,000 lightyears in diameter. It shines at mag 10.4
The other four galaxies to the left of NGC 7331 are much more distant and physically unrelated, between 294 and 365 million lightyears away.
ZWO ASI294MC Pro camera through an 8-inch Teleskop-Service Ritchey-Chretien reflector
Date: 18/09/2019
Photographer: Graham Wilcock