The bright star (mag 7.57 V) above Arp 248 is HD 102331 (HIP 57456 and many others).
Luminance – 34x600s – 340 minutes – binned 1x1
460 minutes total exposure – 7 hours 40 minutes
Imaged March 30th and 31st and April 1st, 2nd and 3rd, 2022 from Dark Sky New Mexico at Rancho Hidalgo (Animas, New Mexico) with a SBIG STF-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT12RCT at
LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/ ... 6/sizes/l/
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Dan