NGC6946 - The Fireworks Galaxy (Jason Guenzel)

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

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NGC6946 - The Fireworks Galaxy

NGC6946 is a face on spiral somewhere around 25 million light years away in a direction between the constellations of Cygnus and Cepheus. The galaxy gained the nickname of the "Fireworks Galaxy" due to the fact that a visible supernovae appear just about once every decade on average. Simply put, there is a lot going on in this galaxy and plenty to look at when you zoom in.

One interesting object that is actually in the foreground caught my attention. There is a pink malformed star in the image toward the bottom, just right of center. I was curious about this and looked it up in the Simbad database. It returned this description "V* DT Cep -- Eclipsing binary of Algol type". So, I seemed to have caught the eclipsing binary action when capturing some of my frames. This is perhaps not surprising when I noticed the period of variability is only 5.5 days. Thats a fast orbit for a pair of stars!

I feel comfortably back in my wheelhouse working on a galaxy image

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RA (center)	20h34m52s.299
RA (top/left)	20h36m33s.105
RA (top/right)	20h36m31s.809
RA (bottom/right)	20h33m09s.947
RA (bottom/left)	20h33m14s.200

Dec (center)	+60°09′14″.44
Dec (top/left)	+59°54′58″.83
Dec (top/right)	+60°23′43″.42
Dec (bottom/right)	+60°23′25″.86
Dec (bottom/left)	+59°54′41″.18

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