Nice pair, one of the few objects I remember very good even when the observation is 12 years ago.

At a nearly perfect night in the High Austrian Alps I remember that the details of NGC 275 very difficult to assign in my older 16-inch and I sort them to a folk structure with a brighter bar towards NGC 274. A newer observation with 27-inch shows a knot like structure similar Howard sketched.

16", 360x, NELM 7m0+
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