NGC 6744 located in the southern constellation of Pavo, this beautiful 9th magnitude galaxy is about 25 million light years away. It is in amongst a rich starfield, and is inclined to our line of sight. NGC 6744 is believed to be one of the most Milky Way-like of all the nearby spirals. It also has other similarities to the Milky Way with at least one distorted companion galaxy superficially similar to one of the Magellanic Clouds. Seen to the upper R/H hand corner.

 Conditions- On both the 7th & 9th, the conditions were quite fickle and very similar as the whole of the last two months have been. I was basically shooting in between high clouds and heavier rain clouds threatened to the periphery. Moments of transparency saved both lum taking sessions. The night taking the colour frames things weren't much better, but at least the clouds stayed away long enough to let me capture this colour set and another. Then things got really dewy. Had some gradient issues to deal with in this image. Could have used at least twice the data to really improve this image but weather at the moment isn't permitting such indulgences.