Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  NGC 6951
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NGC 6951 + IFN, Brice Fayd'Herbe
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NGC 6951 + IFN

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NGC 6951 + IFN

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New processing from 2017 captures.

NGC 6951 (also catalogued as NGC 6952) is a barred spiral galaxy, located in the constellation Cepheus. It is located at a distance of about 75 million light-years from Earth, which, given its apparent dimensions, means that NGC 6951 is about 100,000 light-years across.


53 x 300s bin2 Luminance
27 x 180s bin4 RVB

From a Bortle 5 site.

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NGC 6951 + IFN, Brice Fayd'Herbe