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NGC_6946

NGC 6946 also known as the Fireworks Galaxy.
It 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.(WIKI)

Imaged over several nights in Jan-APR 2019
Lum for 10 HRS
RGB 60 min each

Total about 13 HRS

All images binned 2 - image scale of 0.84"/pix

C14 equipped with Starizona SCT corrector (operating at F7.2)
(The star spikes are artificial...)
ASA DDM60 - no guiding :)
Imaged from my home in Gan-Yavne ISRAEL

Moravian G3-16200
full exif

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