NGC 6744 spiral galaxy is 25 mill light yrs from MilkyWay. Located in Turkey Constellation, magnitude 9.14, beautiful object to observe with 200 mm telescope. It's considered NGC 6744 is 1 of the galaxies most similar to Milky Way. Spongy spiral arms & an elongated nucleus are seen. Like the Milky Way, it has a distorted companion satellite galaxy similar to one of the Magellanic Clouds. It's estimated that it houses one hundred million stars. It was discovered by James Dunlop on June 30...
