Astrobin debut - introducing NGC 6916 in Cygnus - another "hidden galaxy" (GalacticRAVE)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: HD194759 · NGC 6916

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Astrobin debut - introducing NGC 6916 in Cygnus - another "hidden galaxy"

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Astrobin debut - introducing NGC 6916 in Cygnus - another "hidden galaxy"

A series of 4 consecutive clear (but very short) summer nights gave me the opportunity to get 2 astrobin debuts (I think). The second one is NGC 6916. It is a barred spiral of type SBbc, at a distance of about 149 Mly and a diameter of some 75000 ly. We are moving into the Cygnus region, i.e. diving into the Milky Way. This can be noticed by the much higher density of stars (if you compare it with a typical galaxy season object with a similar FoV), and NGC 6916 stands out as it is fairly faint in the blue, indicative of increasing extinction owing to the Galaxy and reminiscent of IC 342, the famous "hidden galaxy". So I checked the location in the Finkenbeiner & Schlafy dust map, and indeed it has a extinction E(B-V) of about 0.35 mag (IC 342 has E(B-V) of 0.48). So NGC6916 is the "little hidden galaxy".

Data were taken on July 5,6,7, and 8.

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RA (center)	20h23m33s.379
RA (top/left)	20h25m02s.604
RA (top/right)	20h22m03s.757
RA (bottom/right)	20h22m04s.797
RA (bottom/left)	20h25m02s.329

Dec (center)	+58°20′49″.57
Dec (top/left)	+58°28′44″.95
Dec (top/right)	+58°28′40″.69
Dec (bottom/right)	+58°12′50″.48
Dec (bottom/left)	+58°12′54″.94

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