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NGC 6946 - Fireworks Galaxy and Friends
An alternate view of the Fireworks Galaxy featuring a neighbor, the open star cluster NGC 6939, near the lower edge of the image.

NGC 6946 - Fireworks Galaxy and Friends

An alternate view of the Fireworks Galaxy featuring a neighbor, the open star cluster NGC 6939, near the lower edge of the image.




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Filename:NGC6946-20160902.jpg
Album name:27telp / Galaxies
Location and Date:OCA site near Anza, CA, USA - 9/2/2016
Equipment:William Optics FLT-132 scope @f/7, QSI-583wsg CCD Camera, Astro-Physics 1200 GTO mount, Borg 50mm guide scope, QHY5L-II guide camera
Settings:Luminance - 13 exposures @ 600 seconds each, bin 2x2; Red - 13 @ 300 seconds, Green - 12 @ 300 seconds, Blue - 13 @ 300 seconds, all bin 2x2
Notes:Captured with MaxIm DL 5.12, processed with CCDStack2 and Adobe Photoshop CS4
Filesize:521 KiB
Date added:Jun 20, 2019
Dimensions:2048 x 1541 pixels
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