Observations of NGC6745
These are the observations available for NGC6745. If you have any of your own that you'd like to submit we'd love to put them on the website.
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Observation Report: NGC 6745 in Lyra
The forum has sparked something a little different this time. There was a discussion about the future of visual observing, and the role of imaging in amateur astronomy. Controversial, I know, but it's also spawned a flurry of observation posts.
The first object to get experienced observers searching their logbooks was our June Galaxy of the Month: NGC 6745. I've chosen to summarise these in a single report. I hope to get the chance to do this again in the future, so keep the observations coming.
Observation by Patrick Maloney
I observed this object in July last year as one of my Twilight Observations, following on from the June observations I wrote about in DSO 167. The observation was made with a 12" reflector from murky, polluted, twilit skies.
This galaxy is clearly very elongated and lenticular. It was reasonably bright, being mostly visible to direct vision. x375 revealed a hint of a stellar nucleus and some darkness along the western edge, a hint of some sort of structure.
Observation by John Vickers
Direct observation:
07/2012, 4” maksutov; dark/still/v.clear, Duxbury, MA. Small, faint feather of irregular intensity. Minor "companion" just N not observed.
I've included a POSSII integrated IR-Red-Blue image.
Observation by Andrew Robertson
This is my sketch of NGC 6745 that I did in October 2014 with my 600mm Dobsonian at x340.
Observation by Dale Holt
A faint but delightful galaxy in Lyra, it appears to be shaped like a banana when observed visually with the large aperture instrument.
The 505mm F3.7 Newtonian working with the amazing Watec 120N+ Deep Sky video camera revealed very interesting structure which I felt resembled the Treble Clef musical symbol. This observation was made on October 6th 2010.
