Another spiral galaxy from down South

[Russ.Carpenter]

This is galaxy season in Chilescope's neighborhood. I hope you're not getting tired of them. Here are the text and image uploaded to Astrobin this morning. The Astrobin URL is https://www.astrobin.com/o5hvly/?nc=user

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A Grand Design Spiral—NGC 7424

This impressive, but infrequently imaged, galaxy is thought to be a “field galaxy,” not gravitationally bound to any other galaxy group. It’s called a grand design because of its well-defined spiral arms.

This is an RGB image processed with a synthetic luminance.

Tech Notes for ASA 500/3.6:
ASA Newtonian, 500 mm aperture, 1900mm focal length, F3.6
FLI Proline 16803, 9 mm pixel, 4096 X 4096
ASA DDM85 equatorial mount
Processing with PixInsight, StarTools, and Affinity Photo