NGC 7752-53 was the last Arp galaxy pair I drew during the 2014 summer astro-week at Ágasvár. It was a little disappointment because the interacting pair looks pretty much like M 51 in the photos.

In the telescope both components of Arp 86 are relatively bright. There are two stars superimposed on the main component NGC 7753. Their brightnesses are 14.6^m and 15.6^m. This galaxy is a beautiful, tightly wound textbook spiral in the photos. I could not detect the spiral structure in the 16" Dobsonian. I could see brighter spots and irregularities which can quite well be match with the photos. And I had a feeling which direction the spiral goes. But I didn't see it. Unforunately the tidal tail / arm connecting the two galaxies remained hidden as well. A few details were visible in the smaller NGC 7752 as well. But to see its irregular spots visible in th photos one probably needs a much bigger telescope and very good seeing.

Comparison with the photograph

The SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey) photograph of NGC 7752-53 can be seen to the left made with the 2.5m telescope. I rotated and cropped the photograph so that it can directly be compared to my inverted drawing.