Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  Fireworks Galaxy  ·  NGC 6946
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NGC 6946 (Fireworks Galaxy), Derek Spratt
NGC 6946 (Fireworks Galaxy)
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NGC 6946 (Fireworks Galaxy)

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NGC 6946 (Fireworks Galaxy), Derek Spratt
NGC 6946 (Fireworks Galaxy)
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NGC 6946 (Fireworks Galaxy)

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[Update 2023-09-10] Finally got great transparency and seeing conditions at Manning Park/Bortle 2 skies to grab another 10 x 150s RGB subs with excellent HFR/focus and integrated them with my prior Manning Park subs (I would have taken a lot more subs given the perfect conditions but I was also taking images of 3 other targets the same night - trying to 'get it all done' in one night. Improved my PixInsight processing flow to include better noise reduction and sharpening .

The 1st set of the subframes were taken under variable seeing/transparency conditions (small amount of forest fire smoke), manually focused due to a broken focuser motor. 

I look forward to another imaging attempt at Manning Park next year without smoky skies and my EAF ...

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NGC 6946 (Fireworks Galaxy), Derek Spratt