NGC 6946 - the Fireworks Galaxy
My first time out since the Connecticut Star Party wind storm... I spent the night last night at the observatory gathering data to process for the next several days. I managed to get the moon, all the visible planets, and this target:
NGC 6946, sometimes referred to as the Fireworks Galaxy, is a face-on intermediate spiral galaxy with a small bright nucleus, whose location in the sky ...
From Wikipedia: NGC 6946, sometimes referred to as the Fireworks Galaxy, is a face-on intermediate spiral galaxy with a small bright nucleus, whose location in the sky straddles the boundary between the northern constellations of Cepheus and Cygnus. Its distance from Earth is about 25.2 million light-years or 7.72 megaparsecs,[2] similar to the distance of M101 (NGC 5457) in the constellation Ursa Major.[5] Both were once considered to be part of the Local Group,[6] but are now known to be among the dozen bright spiral galaxies near the Milky Way but beyond the confines of the Local Group.[7] NGC 6946 lies within the Virgo Supercluster.[8] [url=
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Date: 2022-10-29
Lights: 31 @ 180s
Darks: 30
Flats: 40
Flat-Darks: 40
Bias: 110
No filters
Camera: Nikon D750a
Telescope: Celestron EdgeHD 14"
Guide Scope: 102mm refractor
Software - Telescope: The Sky
Software - Integration: PixInsight
Software - Finishing: Photoshop and Lightroom, Russell Croman's Blur xTerminator
Software - Guiding: PHD2
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