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      NGC 6744
      Wallpaper author:
      Dan Crowson

      24 May 2021

      NGC 6744

      NGC 6744 (Caldwell 101, ESO 104-42, PGC 62836 and others) is an intermediate spiral galaxy located

      approximately 31 million light-years away in Pavo.

      NGC 6744A (ESO 104-38, PGC 62815 and others) is a companion galaxy found in the arms above and to the

      right.

      Luminance – 10x600s – 100 minutes – binned 1x1

      RGB – 7:7:9x600s – 70:70:90 minutes each – binned 1x1

      330 minutes total exposure – 5 hours 30 minutes

      Imaged November 7th, 2020 and April 10th, May 6th and 17th, 2021 at the El Sauce Observatory (Rio

      Hurtado, Chile) with a FLI PL 9000 on a PlaneWave CDK24 at f/6.5 3974 mm.

      This is a Telescope Live (https://telescope.live/) “One-Click Observation.”

      LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/51199578909/sizes/l/


      Dataset from which the image was processed

      NGC 3293

      10 credit

      Open
      Telescope Live
      CHI-1-CCD
      • Type of target
        ............................................................................................................................
        Open Cluster
      • Camera
        ............................................................................................................................
        FLI ProLine PL9000
      • Target coordinates
        ............................................................................................................................
        RA 158.9542 Dec -58.2167
      • Hemisphere
        ............................................................................................................................
        Southern
      • Telescope location
        ............................................................................................................................
        Chile
      • Transient event
        ............................................................................................................................
        No
      • Observed on
        ............................................................................................................................
        17 Mar 2021 - 12 Jun 2022
      Filter
      Avg Exp (s)
      Total Exposure
      Subframes
      SII6004h50m29
      Halpha6004h40m28
      OIII6004h40m28

      NGC 6744