Telescope Reviews: Saw all 4 companions of NGC 7331 last night!

Hello, on a very clear night, really late last night, I turned my 12" to the Deerlick group NGC 7331, and I managed to see all the 4 companions of the beautiful edge on NGC 7331 which was a very bright lustrous oval elongated 8' X 2' NNW SSE, with a bright core, and a stellar nucleus, and faint plumes, extending from the major axes and showed lots of mottling, and a dustlane visible with high power.

The other four galaxies run from 14th magnitude, and downwards, and are very small, but were quite easy in my large dobsonian, on a dark night, First off was NGC 7335 which was the easiest, with direct vision, it had a faint stellar nucleus surrounded by a faint tiny oval 30" halo elongated NE SW, and then on to NGC 7336, which appeared as a very faint stellar object.

Now onto NGC 7340, which was the second easiest, and it appeared as a very faint, and small even round halo, with a slightly brighter center, with direct vision and then the toughest NGC 7337, which was extremley faint, and was visible about 50% of the time with averted vision, this one was an extremley small almost stellar object, but much tougher at magintude 14.7.

These galaxies are just to the East of the great spiral, and they present a great challenge to medium, and large amateur telescopes, if it was darker, I'm sure I would be able to glimpse some of the much fainter MCG, and anonymous galaxies in the area as well, tonight I'm trying for Stephan's Quintet...clear skies...

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