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Photometric measurement method for the shell around NGC 7531. The polygonal aperture (blue) indicates the part of the image where the magnitude, surface brightness and colour of the shell were measured. For comparison, the surface brightness and colours were measured in a circular aperture (red) placed on the NGC 7531 spiral arm.
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