NGC 6744 is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 30 million light-years away in the constellation Pavo. With its flocculent arms and elongated core it is considered to be a much larger (200,000 light year span) Milky Way analogue. Like the Milky Way the bright central region has a dense number of bright old yellow stars, with numerous star forming regions in the arms.
Imaged in LRGB on our Planewave CDK 1000 at Observatorio El Sauce, Chile.
Outer frame field of view extension data RiDK 700
Image acquisition and processing: Mike Selby
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