NGC 6946 (The Fireworks Galaxy)

Posted by DaveMitsky
on Thursday, June 28, 2012

This 45-second-long image of the SAB(rs)cd spiral galaxy NGC 6946 (Arp 29) on the Cepheus-Cygnus border was captured remotely on 2012/6/26 using the Bradford Robotic Telescope's 14" f/11 Celestron C14 SCT and FLI MicroLine camera located on Tenerife in the Canary Islands.  A Celestron focal reducer yielding an effective focal length of 1877mm at f/5.3 was employed.  

For further information on NGC 6946, which is also known as the Fireworks Galaxy, see http://messier.seds.org/xtra/ngc/n6946.html

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