Fireworks galaxy and NGC 6939 (Ian Dixon)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: Fireworks Galaxy · HD196085 · NGC 6939 · NGC 6946 · PGC 166192 · PGC 166193 · PGC 2601346 · PGC 64824 · PGC 64878

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Fireworks galaxy and NGC 6939

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Fireworks galaxy and NGC 6939

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Its been a while. Life has been very busy *and* we didn't have much luck this past summer with wildfires in the northern part of our province in central Canada. Anyway its nice to be back into processing some data that I gathered this past fall.

I spent a rare clear evening in mid October of 2023, just to get my feet wet again in this great pastime. Kevin W, Dave M and I met at my farmsite just after dusk and set up for a nice evening of visual and AP.

Targets - Although this is a very common galaxy target, it is one that I have never tried to capture. Using the software that I had for framing I decided to include the open star cluster NGC 6939. The fireworks galaxy is often captured and reproduced on this site, but that doesn't lessen its appeal for me. It is a relativley proximal face-on spiral, bordering Cepheus and Cygnus. Its also rather dim - but obvious as a diffuse oval halo brightening at its center. The galaxy and close open cluster are located in a well populated star field.

Processing was kept to a minimum for this one in Pixinsight and Photoshop - I will try to improve on this with some additional processing.

Thanks very much for looking.

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Description: Our group under the stars at the farm...10 mm Rokinon and Canon 60D - 15 s exposure

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Astrometry.net job	8962696
PixInsight job	47W15L0CQVTJB7Y5OXLWDDYR3DOV2453
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	20h34m14s.169
RA (top/left)	20h27m16s.921
RA (top/right)	20h35m27s.288
RA (bottom/right)	20h41m03s.293
RA (bottom/left)	20h32m56s.707

Dec (center)	+60°20′40″.13
Dec (top/left)	+60°37′40″.70
Dec (top/right)	+59°27′24″.16
Dec (bottom/right)	+60°02′21″.28
Dec (bottom/left)	+61°14′02″.13

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