Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  NGC 6939  ·  NGC 6946
Fireworks galaxy NGC 6946 & open Cluster NGC 6939, Mariusz
Fireworks galaxy NGC 6946 & open Cluster NGC 6939
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Fireworks galaxy NGC 6946 & open Cluster NGC 6939

Fireworks galaxy NGC 6946 & open Cluster NGC 6939, Mariusz
Fireworks galaxy NGC 6946 & open Cluster NGC 6939
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Fireworks galaxy NGC 6946 & open Cluster NGC 6939

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After few months of mysery here it is!!Clear sky! Finally!! ;) Or it was..?

NGC 6946 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 22.5 million light-years

NGC 6939 is an open cluster in the constellation Cepheus, lies approximately 4.000 light years away and it is over a billion years old.

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Fireworks galaxy NGC 6946 & open Cluster NGC 6939, Mariusz

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