NGC 6744 is one of the galaxies most similar to our Milky Way in the local universe. The galaxy is situated in the constellation of Pavo at a distance of about 30 million light-years.
NGC 6744 is bigger than the Milky Way, with a disk stretching 175,000 light-years across. A small, distorted companion galaxy is located nearby, which is similar to our galaxy’s Large Magellanic Cloud. This companion, called NGC 6744A, can be seen as a blob in the main galaxy’s outer arm, at the lower center of the image. (Source
NASA)
At first this was intended as a RGB+Ha only target but as a IFN around the galaxy was barely visible I added ~20hrs Luminance.
Total integration about 50hrs:
('Green') 7.0 hrs
( 'Red') 6.3 hrs
('Blue') 7.4 hrs
( 'H_Alpha') 9.6 hrs
('Luminance') 19.9 hrs
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