NGC 6744
Situated around 30 million Light years away in the Pavo Constellation NGC 6674 is a beautiful spiral galaxy. It is larger than our Milky Way Galaxy, 175000 light years across. Its apparent size in the sky is equal to the size of our full moon. Old, cooled stars situated at the yellowish core of the galaxy. Spiral arms are filled with young bule stars & pink star forming regions. Its satellite galaxy NGC 6744A is also visible just beside it.
SPECIFICATIONS
Telescope
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Telescope
Planewave CDK24
Camera
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Camera
Proline FLI PL 9000
Location
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Location
Rio Hurtado Valley, Chile
Date of observation
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Date of observation
Oct 21
Filters
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Filters
Astrodon LRGB 2GEN
Processing
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Processing
Deep Sky Stacker, PixInsight, Photoshop
Credits
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Credits
Basudeb Chakrabarti
