‘Fireworks’ Galaxy – NGC 6946 – in Cepheus

'Fireworks' Galaxy - NGC 6946 - in Cepheus

Face-on spiral galaxy with interesting kinked spiral arm structure. Moderately close and large on the sky, with medium surface-brightness in amateur telescopes. 25 exposures 200 seconds, ISO 3200, Canon 60Da, AstroTech AT8IN 8″ f/4 Newtonian, Losmandy G11 mount, PHD guiding, captured with MaximDL, stacked with CCDStack, final editing with Photoshop CS6.

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