Observations of NGC7724
These are the observations available for NGC7724. 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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Observations of the NGC 7727 group in Aquarius
A brief view of August’s Galaxy of the Month through variable cloud with the Mewlon 300 and 27mm Panoptic.
NGC 7727 was easy with a bright core and an obvious circular halo. NGC 7724 I could only pick up Averted Vision (AV) through the most transparent periods. Didn’t get a chance to look for NGC 7723.
Although reference books and images say NGC 7724 is smaller it looked a similar size to me but a very uniform low surface brightness circular glow. Perhaps a combination of AV making it difficult to judge and possibly the bright core of NGC 7727 masking the outer extremities of its halo making it look smaller than it is.
Andrew Robertson - 4 August 2016
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Observations of NGC 7727 and NGC 7724
Please find attached my observations of the galaxy of the month, NGC 7727 and just for good measure, its neighbour NGC 7724.The weather having been so awful this summer, I've had to reach back into the archives again. Not so far this time, only to November 2015. Both these observations were made at Drumroamin Farm in Galloway, at the Stargazers' Lounge Star Party.
This particular night had two clear spells. During the first, early in the evening when these observations were made, the sky was a bit mushy - not as crystal clear as it could have been, and as it was later. Still much better than anything I get at home, though. The instrument used was a 12" Newtonian reflector with a 10mm Plossl eyepiece.
NGC 7727 appeared fairly bright and round with a slightly elongated brighter middle, and a possible nucleus.
NGC 7724 was a different matter, and quite difficult. Very faint, only occasionally seen. Round with no apparent brightening.
Patrick Maloney - (1 August 2016).
