Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  NGC 6946
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NGC6946 Fireworks Galaxy, lowenthalm
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NGC6946 Fireworks Galaxy

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
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NGC6946 Fireworks Galaxy, lowenthalm
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NGC6946 Fireworks Galaxy

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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I spent some time capturing data at bin 1x1 on NGC 6946 last fall when it was well placed in the sky from my suburban backyard and seeing was good. The image is a total of 35 minutes of data created from of a stack of 5 x 7 minute images, each composed of 211 x 2 second subs live stacked in SharpCap. I wasn't expecting much for some reason, but it came out a lot better than I expected, showing some nice detail and color.

At some point I will capture some more data to add to this image using my IDAS LPR filter to pick out some more detail in the red HII regions, bring out more of the color in the dust lanes and maybe get a little more of the faint outer halo.

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