Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  Fireworks Galaxy  ·  NGC 6939  ·  NGC 6946
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Fireworks Galaxy and friends, DustSpeakers
Fireworks Galaxy and friends
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Fireworks Galaxy and friends

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Fireworks Galaxy and friends, DustSpeakers
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Fireworks Galaxy and friends

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Description

A widefield view of the face on spiral Firework galaxy (NGC 6946) and to its upper right the open cluster NGC 6939 (aka 'The Ghost Bush Cluster', 'The Flying Geese Cluster' or 'The Silk Fan Cluster' - no drugs were used in coming up with these names ;-) ). 
These are located on the borders of the constellations of Cephius and Cygnus.

The galaxy is about 25 million light years away. It is named the Fireworks galaxy due to its high rate of supernovae.

The cluster is over 4,000 light years away in the Orion arm of our own Milky Way Galaxy and is over 1 billion years old.

Equipment: (23 Nov 2022)
- Redcat 51 (250mm focal length at f/4.9)
- ASI1600MM mono camera
- LRGB filters in EFW filter wheel
- ZWO EAF focuser
- Ioptron GEM28 mount

Acquisition:
- 10 x 300s each of LRGB
at -15degC

Processing:
APP, StarTools and Gimp.

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