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

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Fireworks Galaxy

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The fireworks galaxy may be "small-ish" at only about 40,000 light years across, but it's really earned it's name:  It is a very active galaxy, with both a high rate of new star formation as well as a high rate of supernova discoveries.  

This was among the first handful of targets for my new EdgeHD 14.  I was only able to capture RGB+HA before the moon cast interference, so there's no luminance component to the image here -- but I think it came out nicely regardless.

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Fireworks Galaxy, MountainAir