Image taken with 8 inch Altair RCOS and SBIG STF-8300M. 16 minute (4 x 4) exposure through ‘luminance’ filter.
Here is the annotated image from Astrometry.net identifying the other galaxies within the field.
From Wikipedia:
NGC 51 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Andromeda. It has a diameter of 90,000 light-years. The galaxy was discovered on September 7, 1885 by Lewis Swift, who described it as “Pretty faint, pretty small, round, brighter middle.”
| Observation data (2000.0 epoch) | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Andromeda |
| Right ascension | 00:14:34.8h |
| Declination | +48:15:22° |
| Redshift | 0.017849 |
| Helio radial velocity | 5350 km/s |
| Distance | 241,000,000Ly (74,000,000Parsecs) |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 13.1 |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | S0/a |
| Size | 90,000 |
| Apparent size (V) | 1′.445 x 0′.891 |