Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Pavo (Pav)  ·  Contains:  NGC 6744
NGC 6744, Matthew Sole
NGC 6744
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NGC 6744

NGC 6744, Matthew Sole
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NGC 6744

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About 30 million light years away lies this Milky Way look-alike known as NGC 6744.

With an elongated core and long spiraling arms, it is very reminiscent of our own galaxy. It even has its own galactic companion similar to our Large Magellanic Cloud.

This is data from last August that I'm only now just getting around to processing. Trying to pull out some of the IFN without blowing away the rest of the image was tough but here it is!

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NGC 6744, Matthew Sole