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VanJan
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Difficult with 8" apeture under mag 4.5 skies. Doable with detailed chart of the area to pinpoint exact location of individual galaxies. Follows are my observations of the three members I managed to see, all at 167X. NGC 7619: Small, faint oval halo slightly extended NE to SW. No core region. Faint stellar nucleus. NGC 7626: Small, very faint round halo. No core region. Extremely faint stellar nucleus. NGC 7623: Very small, extremely faint elliptical halo extended N-S. No core region. No nucleus. Extremely faint star closely np.
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Americal
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I agree, in my backyard it is difficult in my C11. Given a dark sky the Pegasus/Pisces region gives up a lot of objects. In NELM 6.5-6.8 skies I've gotten as many as 8 of the members of the cluster with a little work. I find some of the smaller galaxies like NGC 7611 and 7634 easier because of the higher surface brightness. A nice area to spend some time.
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sgottlieb
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Difficult with 8" apeture under mag 4.5 skies.... NGC 7623: Very small, extremely faint elliptical halo extended N-S. No core region. No nucleus. Extremely faint star closely np.
Excellent observation of NGC 7623 under those conditions. 
I can still remember the first time I took at NGC 7619/7626 with a C-8 back in 1981 and was amazed to pick up a galaxy (NGC 7623) that was not plotted on the Sky Atlas 2000.0 (or perhaps I was using Becvar's Atlas of the Heavens). In any case, it was definitely exciting to "discover" an unplotted galaxy in an 8"!
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nytecam
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Nicely recorded observation Steve  This forum's a wonderful challenge for my London backyard's tiny ETX-70 with a little help from my tiny cam of course  chart below
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nytecam
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Below is a recent 'finder' chart of the Peg 1 galaxy group area circled 1 degree diameter with brighter galaxies in the mag 11-12 range marked together with a few stars in the same mag range. Brightest field star is mag 6.9 GSC 1162:373. Hope is of use
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Nytecam 51N 0.1W
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murzim
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Reged: 08/26/08
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Loc: Belgium
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Hi,
2 years ago, I observed the Pegasus I galaxy cluster with my 15" Obsession and I saw 13 galaxies in the central region:
NGC 7619: big and bright oval nebula, gradually brighter middle with a starlike core, maybe a little bit brighter than NGC 7626 in the same field of view in 13mm Nagler
NGC 7626: about the same size and magnitude as NGC 7619, but with averted vision somewhat bigger oval nebula with a gradually brighter middle and with a big round central zone
NGC 7608: elongated nebula, clearly seen with averted vision (much easier than nearby UGC 12510)
NGC 7611: directly seen as a quite small nebula, elongated NW-SE with a bright and obvious core. Lies somewhat NW of a bright star.
NGC 7612: oval nebula with a bright, almost starlike core. One of the brightest members of Pegasus I.
NGC 7615: quite weak oval-elongated nebula. No surface details seen.
NGC 7617: small, quite weak elongated oval nebula with a brighter core, SW of NGC 7619. Elongated NE-SW.
NGC 7631: quite large and obviously oval-elongated nebula with a patchy surface?
IC 5309: elongated nebula, less bright than NGC 7611 but still easily seen. Weak star in halo visible.
UGC 12510: very weak elongated nebula, only visible with averted vision. No further details.
UGC 12535: very weak nebula, only seen with averted vision.
CGCG 406-79: not 100% sure, very weak elongated streak with averted vision
CGCG 406-69: very weak, only seen with averted vision as a small patch without orientation or details
I missed NGC 7623 though, I should have seen it with 15" of aperture...
Jan
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Ptarmigan
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Not bad for being in a not so great sky condition.  Hmmmmmm, I might give this a try. 
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nytecam
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For reference my annotated 1 deg wide shot of Peg I galaxy gp from last night here. Hope it's of interest
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