Left: merged three-color EPIC X-ray image of the four NGC 5746 observations. Red colors represent the soft X-ray band (0.3–0.7 keV), green colors represent the medium 0.7–1.2 keV band, and blue colors represent the hard 1.2–5.0 keV band. The image is displayed using a 60–99 percentile intensity stretch. The green ellipse displays the D₂₅ ellipse of NGC 5746. The cyan ellipses display the two regions of enhanced emission, the yellow circle represents the halo (r = 5′), the white annulus displays the background region ($r=7\stackrel{\prime }{.}8-9\stackrel{\prime }{.}4$). Right: image of the same field in 0.3–1.2 keV, displayed using a 75–99 percentile stretch. Sixteen circular regions are shown, divided into four quadrants (east, north, west, south) for the construction of the surface brightness profiles.