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

Fireworks Galaxy  NGC 6946, kcperk
Fireworks Galaxy  NGC 6946
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Fireworks Galaxy NGC 6946

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Fireworks Galaxy. This is the first deep sky object I took without actually being able to see it at all while photographing it. I had to trust my go to mount, and did plate solving using astrophotography tool. You can see it's a little off centered. I don't have a guide camera, so I took over 400 30" subs. It took forever (20+ hours) for Deep Sky Stacker to finish the image. The first attempt, the program crashed with about two minutes left, so I got to start over. I didn't do any darks, flats or bias in this stack. I will go back and add those later and see the difference.

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Description: This is the image with 27 Darks and 20 Flats stacked.

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Fireworks Galaxy  NGC 6946, kcperk