Expert: Jayendra Upadhye - 8/19/2004

Question
Hello:

Is there a Galaxy called Pegasus?  If so, haw far is it from earth?  Do you know of any websites that shed any information about this galaxy?

Thank You,

Paul

Answer
Hi Paul,
Questions such as these I answer using NOT my knowledge but a simple resort to Google!
Type "Galaxies in Pegasus" into Google and it will list 15,000 pages!
A cut paste form the site:-
http://www.dibonsmith.com/peg_con.htm
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Pegasus has many galaxies and an outstanding globular cluster.

M15 (NGC 7078) is one of the finest globular clusters in the heavens, very bright and compact, at 35,000 to 40,000 light years away. It is found four degrees NW of epsilon Pegasi.
NGC 7331 is a spiral galaxy resembling the Milky Way Galaxy; it's as if we were looking at outselves from fifty million light years away.

NGC 7479 is a barred spiral galaxy about three degrees due south of alpha Pegasi.

Stephan's Quintet is a noted cluster of galaxies half a degree SSW of NGC 7331. See how many of the five you can spot (three is average, four is good).

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happy surfing!
Another link is :-
http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/images/Questar/ngc7331.html
if you click on "Return to thumnails" at the bottom of that web page, you will come across a gold mine of images.
(that link is :- http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/images/Questar/index.html)

As you may know, Questar make a fine range of "tracking" telescopes, to cater to needs of long expoures of very faint objects.
Tracking compensates for the earth's rotation against the visible sky during the period of exopsure.
Jayen