Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  Fireworks Galaxy  ·  NGC 6946
NGC 6946 The Fireworks Galaxy, David Wills (PixelSkiesAstro)
NGC 6946 The Fireworks Galaxy
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NGC 6946 The Fireworks Galaxy

NGC 6946 The Fireworks Galaxy, David Wills (PixelSkiesAstro)
NGC 6946 The Fireworks Galaxy
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NGC 6946 The Fireworks Galaxy

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I have had this on my Hard drive for some time now but was never happy with the outcome of the processing so now we are in lockdown it seemed a good time for a revisit. I spent the whole day and started from the beginning I'm now very happy with how it turned out.

Lum 19x900Secs

Red 15x900Secs

Green 11x900Secs

Blue 14x900Secs

Ha 22x1800Secs

22 hours 5 mins in total.

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. NGC 6946 lies within the Virgo Supercluster.

Captured by David Wills at PixelSkies, Castillejar, Spain www.pixelskiesastro.com

Lum 26x900Secs

6 hours 30 mins in total.

Equipment used:

Telescope: Tec 140 F7

Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Pro Mono Cooled to -10C

Image Scale: 0.95

Guiding: OAG

Filters: Astronomik L

Mount: iOptron CEM60 "Standard" GOTO Centre Balanced Equatorial Mount

Image Acquisition: Voyager

Observatory control: Lunatico Dragonfly

Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight

Processing: Pixinsight 1.8

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NGC 6946 The Fireworks Galaxy, David Wills (PixelSkiesAstro)