Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  Fireworks Galaxy  ·  NGC 6946
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NGC 6946 The Fireworks Galaxy, Dale A Chamberlain
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NGC 6946 The Fireworks Galaxy, Dale A Chamberlain
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While waiting for my new Chroma filters I decided to go filterless for this image, especially since there is no moon visible.

NGC 6946 also known as the Fireworks Galaxy is a face-on intermediate spiral galaxy with a small bright nucleus, whose location in the sky straddles the boundary between the northern constellations of Cepheus and Cygnus. Its distance from Earth is about 25.2 million light-years.

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