Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  Fireworks Galaxy  ·  NGC 6946
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NGC 6946 - New Year without fireworks, Tom Gray
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NGC 6946 - New Year without fireworks

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Messing around under a full moon, I wanted to see what sort of result I could achieve using just an IR cut filter. I chose a target opposite the bright moon and after a rough polar alignment, I captured 72 x 120s images, binned 2x2 to try and drive up SNR.

I had to pull back on the gamma when processing using a non-linear DDP stretch, to mask the excessive walking noise, but am pleasantly surprised by the level of detail that is still visible. Not exactly the 'fireworks' galaxy, which we all missed this year, but a way of welcoming in a New Year.

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