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NGC 1744
ESO486-G005
RA 04:59:58
Dec -26°01.6'
Galaxy |
h: vF, vL, vmE, vgvlbM, 4' long, 2.5' broad.
Included in the CCD-atlas of Ryder S.D. &
Dopita M.A. (1993) “An H-alpha Atlas of Nearby Southern Spiral Galaxies”
Astrophys.J.Suppl. 88, 415. They note: “At this late type [SB(s)d] and high
inclination, the spiral arms are becoming difficult to trace. H II regions can
be seen right across the bar, and fout into the northern and western arms, but
the short southeastern arm contains only a single giant H II region. Even the
wispy arm running south from the north end of the bar is found to harbor at
least three active star-forming regions.”
RNGC: SB,DIF,BM,KNY, NDIF BAR,SEV*SUP.
Steve Coe, observing with a 13” f/5.6,
notes: “Very faint, pretty large, elongated, very slightly brighter in the
middle at 100X. I went over the field twice before I realized "that's it".
This is Tirion's Joke for Winter, in the Summer his Joke is NGC 6380 in
Scorpius. Either object is tough, even on a great night from a dark site.”
Steve Gottlieb, 13-inch: “fairly faint,
fairly large, very diffuse, elongated 5:2 ~N-S, 5'x2', fairly even surface
brightness. Two mag 14 stars are at the N edge 2.5' from the center with a
total of three or four faint stars superimposed.” |
