NGC 7331 is a spiral galaxy about 50 million light-years from Earth. The image field contains 4 other spiral galaxies in the background by chance alignment. Those galaxies are about 500 million light-years from Earth. The entire group is known as the Deer Lick Group. This is a cropped view from the full frame view already submitted.
Location: Pommier Observatory, Portland, OR, USA
Telescope/Mount: Celestron Compustar C14 with Astro Physics 0.75x focal reducer (f/8.3)
Camera: SBIG STL 11000M with Baader Planetarium LRGB Filters
Other: SBIG AO-L Adaptive Optics at 8 Hz.
Dates: 2014-08-25 through 2014-09-03
Exposures: L:R:G:B=560:10:100:100:100=11 hours 40 minutes total exposure
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