Night Thirtyseven - Stephan's Quintet

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Pushing the edge of what I can do with this telescope. I don't know if the edge is determined by my post processing skills or the telescope itself. For the first time, I am including images from the Internet to show what I was trying to capture last night. These images are of Stephan's Quintet. Stephan's Quintet is a visual grouping of five galaxies of which four form the first compact galaxy group ever discovered. The group, visible in the constellation Pegasus, was discovered by Édouard Stephan in 1877 at the Marseille Observatory. There is, in addition, another galaxy visible above and slightly to the left of center. This galaxy is also part of a group of another galaxies called The Deer Lick Group. Stephans Quintet is directly in the center of the image and is so small as to demand enlargement. Four of the five galaxies in Stephan's Quintet form a physical association, a true galaxy group, Hickson Compact Group 92, and will likely merge with each other. Radio observations in the early 1970s revealed a filament of emission between the galaxies in the group. The first three images are mine and the fourth and fifth are from the James Webb Space Telescope.
Zooming in created a large amount of distortion making this evening a disappointment.
This is the James Webb image:
More James Webb imagery:

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