Combination of 5, 3 minute exposures, SBIG ST9XE CCD camera.
300mm f/6 newtonian telescope at prime focus.
NGC 7418 is a beautiful, large, and bright, face-on spiral galaxy in Grus, close to the Piscis Austrinus border, about 8 degrees south of Fomalhaut. It is easily visible in a 6" telescope as a large oval patch of light. The faint galaxy above NGC 7418 is NGC 7418A. This is an unusual galaxy that consists of a bright, star-like nucleus with extremely faint spiral arms. In a 12" telescope it looks very similar to a 13th magnitude star.