This is a zoomed-in view of Stephan’s Quintet in Pegasus, cropped from the full frame view shown elsewhere on this website. The galaxies in the cluster are, proceeding clockwise from the galaxy in the upper left corner, NGC 7319 with tidal tails trailing off below, interacting spiral galaxies NGC 7318B (left) and NGC 7318 A, NGC 7317, and NGC 7320. The face-on spiral galaxy to the upper left of the cluster is NGC 7320C. The details in this image actually compare very favorably with the details seen in the famous image of Stephan’s Quintet taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, especially considering the difference in aperture and that my telescope is hindered by the blurring effects of Earth’s atmosphere. This image is also much more colorful, being captured at visible wavelengths instead of infrared for the JWST.

Exposures: 380:120:120:120 minutes =2 hours 12 hours, 20 minutes total exposure, completely unguided.