NGC 7424 is a barred spiral galaxy located 37.5 million light-years away in the southern constellation Grus (the Crane).
Its size (about 100,000 light-years) makes it similar to our own galaxy, the Milky Way. It is called a "grand design"
galaxy because of its well defined spiral arms.

Orion Optics UK AG12 F3.8
Starlightxpress TRIUS PRO-694 Midi Combi PRO Blue Edition incl.CFW & OAG unit
FLI Atlas Focuser
LHaRGB = 240, 60, 45, 45, 45min total 7.25hrs
Astronomik Deep-Sky LRGB filters
-20C chip temp, flats used but no dark frames.
Focal length 1120mm
Image scale 0.84"/pix
Guide Camera: Starlightxpress Lodestar PRO

Comments
Data collected 3 Oct 2024, battled some high cloud with generally acceptable to good seeing*

*NB: No drizzle guide, upscaling, Blur Exterminator or other AI based sharpening, was used on this
data, this is the native 0.84"/pix image scale, using just traditional Richardson Lucy deconvolution.

Seeing (FWHM) quality at Eagleview:
Excellent: <1.6"
Good: 1.6" - 1.9"
Acceptable: 2.0" - 2.3"
Poor: >2.3"
Most common FWHM value: 1.7"

Taken from Eagleview Observatory:

https://pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/eagleview_observatory

Equipment setup:

https://pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/173097781/original

Some links to equipment used to take this image:

Sidereal Trading

https://www.siderealtrading.com.au/

StarlightXpress CCD Cameras and imaging equipment

http://www.sxccd.com/products

Finger Lakes Instrumentation CCD cameras:

http://www.flicamera.com/

Gerd Neumann and Astronomik filters:

http://www.astronomik.com/en/home

http://www.gerdneumann.net/

MSB Software & Astroart Camera control and Image processing software

http://www.msb-astroart.com/