NGC 7331 and Stephans Quintett in Pegasus

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...a little bit of fireworks and stars. This is my best Astro from 2024 - 6 1/2 hours of collecting photons with my D850 and 600 mm scope over several nights. The largest galaxy, NGC 7331, and nearby accompanying galaxies are also called the Deer Lick Group, even though they are not interacting but only in the line of sight. The small galaxy cluster on the bottom left is Stefans Quintett. These are interacting and therefore irregular in shape.

NGC 7331 is one of the largest galaxies known but approximately 50 Mio. lightyears away and contains 400 Billion suns, if I remember correctly.

Happy New Year to all!

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MikeA said:
...a little bit of fireworks and stars. This is my best Astro from 2024 - 6 1/2 hours of collecting photons with my D850 and 600 mm scope over several nights. The largest galaxy, NGC 7331, and nearby accompanying galaxies are also called the Deer Lick Group, even though they are not interacting but only in the line of sight. The small galaxy cluster on the bottom left is Stefans Quintett. These are interacting and therefore irregular in shape.

NGC 7331 is one of the largest galaxies known but approximately 50 Mio. lightyears away and contains 400 Billion suns, if I remember correctly.

Happy New Year to all!

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Mike , that is very Cool!! Well done👍👍👍
 
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Congrats!! Amazing photo of the large galaxy, NGC 7331. Massive determination here, and you won.
Thanks for sharing this. The Milky Way twin, and so so far away
 
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WOW @MikeA - Thats a stunning image and well worth the hours you put in to capture this , 400 Billion Suns in that single Galaxy with a very possible 2/3 planets per Sun = Possibly 600/700 Billion Planets , how very insignificant we truly are in this vast vast Universe ..

Thanks for sharing this ...


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MikeA said:
...a little bit of fireworks and stars. This is my best Astro from 2024 - 6 1/2 hours of collecting photons with my D850 and 600 mm scope over several nights. The largest galaxy, NGC 7331, and nearby accompanying galaxies are also called the Deer Lick Group, even though they are not interacting but only in the line of sight. The small galaxy cluster on the bottom left is Stefans Quintett. These are interacting and therefore irregular in shape.

NGC 7331 is one of the largest galaxies known but approximately 50 Mio. lightyears away and contains 400 Billion suns, if I remember correctly.

Happy New Year to all!

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This is stunning, Mike. Do you use PixInsight? Also, what mount are you using? Your stars are beautifully round.
 
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Harry.G said:
WOW @MikeA - Thats a stunning image and well worth the hours you put in to capture this , 400 Billion Suns in that single Galaxy with a very possible 2/3 planets per Sun = Possibly 600/700 Billion Planets , how very insignificant we truly are in this vast vast Universe ..

Thanks for sharing this ...


Harry.G
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Thank you Harry - yes, one cannot even begin to fathom these numbers and distances. Even the light of 7331 - now finally reaching earth - is around 50 Mio. years old. Earth was in the Eocene when that light left 7331 and a much warmer place, without polar ice caps or glaciers and much higher sea levels.
 
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Bubbahotep said:
This is stunning, Mike. Do you use PixInsight? Also, what mount are you using? Your stars are beautifully round.
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Thank you! Since I am now retired, I have more time, so I made some Youtube courses in PixInsight (PixInsight for Dummies, like me) and am amazed how well this software works, especially using the plugins from Russel Croman RC-Astro (BlurXterminator, NoiseXterminator,...).

My mount see:

https://androsch.info/equipment
 
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Your gallery is full of gorgeous astro shots!, Mike! I hope to get into astro, but I can see that it can quickly get $$$ in the gear department. I'll start slow with wide field milky way shots, lunar, and aurora if we get more at our latitude.
We are blessed with dark skies within a days drive in the western deserts of California.
 
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AlanB313 said:
Your gallery is full of gorgeous astro shots!, Mike! I hope to get into astro, but I can see that it can quickly get $$$ in the gear department. I'll start slow with wide field milky way shots, lunar, and aurora if we get more at our latitude.
We are blessed with dark skies within a days drive in the western deserts of California.
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Milky Way and wide field is great to start. You might want to track the stars with something like this:

https://www.omegon.eu/de/fotomontierungen/omegon-montierung-minitrack-lx3/p,62043
 
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