Spiral Galaxy NGC6744

[gregbradley]

This is a very beautiful southern galaxy. Its not far from the south celestial pole.

Always a favourite.

CDK17, FLI Microline 16200,AP1600 mount.

https://pbase.com/gregbradley/image/170864728/large Regular size

https://pbase.com/gregbradley/image/170864728/original Large size

Greg.

[PKay]

From me...a big WOW!

A great result Greg.

[gregbradley]

Thanks Peter. The seeing was very good that night too.

Greg.

[ChrisV]

That's wonderful. The spirals really jump out.

[Bart]

Lovely galaxy, Greg although the stars look a bit unusual?:question:

[Geoff45]

Good one Greg. I like the way you have managed to get the delicate spiral arm stretching out to the satellite galaxy.
Geoff

[strongmanmike]

Very nice colour on this one Greg :thumbsup:

Mike

[Peter Ward]

Geez...looks like you have run a heavy minimum or star-shrink tool over the stars. Something not quite right there :shrug:

Colour looks good and nice image scale just the same.

[gregbradley]

Cheers Chris.



Thaks Bart. Yeah I got a bit heavy handed with Starshrink. Fixed it now. They are more Gaussian.



Thanks Geoff.Good seeing and the 16200 sensor is a good match for the CDK under good conditions.





Yes, got me. I've fixed the heavy handedness on the stars.

Greg.

[Bart]

Much nicer! Nice image. :)

[gregbradley]

Cheers Bart.

Greg.

[rustigsmed]

nice work greg, up close and personal with ngc6744! plenty of background fuzzies too :)

[gregbradley]

Thanks Russell.

Greg.

[Placidus]

That's beautiful. Perfect colour, very sharp, very deep. We reckon we can just make out the spiral arms continuing past the satellite galaxy for another half-turn.

[gregbradley]

Oh yeah I missed that. Haven't seen that before. Wow, these satellite galaxies really have a large impact on the host galaxy. I wonder what affect the LMC and SMC have on the Milky Way. Its hard to tell looking from inside it.

Greg.

[PeterSEllis]

Hi Greg,
What a great shot of NGC6744 . You have certainly upped the bar on that one too. :eyepop:

Cheers
Peter

[gregbradley]

Thanks very much Peter.
Greg

[Slawomir]

Very nice image Greg - and what a great imaging apparatus!

[Atmos]

I've only attempted photographing this the once but discovered that its a super faint sucker. Great job! Your exposure time has really made the galaxy pop from the background.

[gregbradley]

Thanks Suavi. Yes the CDK17 dwarfs the CFF. When I piggyback it on the CDK it seems so small but by itself its quite the little tank.



It certainly is one of the fainter ones but arguably one of the prettiest.
Its also supposed to be one that is considered to be very similar to our Milky Way.

Greg.