NGC 7331 is a huge galaxy, elongated in the N-S direction, full of details. Its core is quite bright, raising out towards the West from the galactic plane. The Eastern side of the galaxy looks much larger, the whole surface seems strongly asymmetric. I estimate the brightness of the core to 12.6m, compared to nearby stars using data from the Hubble Guide Star Catalog (GSC), whereas the average brightness of the surface of the galaxy I estimate at 13.5m, which means that it should be visible for most mid-size telescopes under good sky conditions. I measure a size of 1'x6', although according to the large bright galactic core I suspect that it would look much larger under better conditions. To the South of NGC 7331 near the end of the half hour sketching period I've started to see another very subtle little spot which occured to be NGC 7335. To my own estimations, I found it has a surface brightness of about 14.2m, and a size of 0.5'x1.2'. There are more NGC objects visible in the eyepiece, like NGC 7326, 7333 and so on, however most of these were identified later as stars or double stars.