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Photographer:
starman_astro
Location of Photo:
Auberry, CA
Date/Time of photo:
July/August 2025
Equipment:
PlaneWave CDK24 + L600 Mount, Moravian C5A-100M, Chroma LRGB Filters
Description:
A brilliant new point of light steals the stage in NGC 7331 — the Deer Lick Galaxy — set against its distant “fleas” and veils of Integrated Flux Nebula. The intruder is SN 2025rbs, a Type Ia supernova discovered on July 14, 2025, which rose to about mag 12 by late July, making it one of the season’s brightest. NGC 7331, often likened to a Milky Way twin, reveals striking dust lanes across its disk, while the background companions (NGC 7335/7336/7337/7340) sit hundreds of millions of light-years farther away. The faint, smoky IFN threads the field, Galactic dust glowing with the collective starlight of the Milky Way.
