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NGC 5746

NGC 5746

Virgo is full of so many wonderful galaxies and here is one of them. You won't find it hiding in amongst all the others. In fact it is so far to the east of the usual suspects, it's like it doesn't want to share the spotlight. It's located approx 1/2º to the west of 109 Virgo. It is on the RASC 110 Finest NGC list.

The dust lane in it is quite prominent in images but the the eastern half of the galaxy is faint and that half of the dome is rather tenuous. It took the f/5, 635mm Newtonian at L.B. Pearson College to bring it out fully.

This is how I observed the galaxy using that telescope at 433X magnification. Despite requiring a scope of this aperture to bring out this level of detail, under dark skies the galaxy is still striking with even a six inch scope.