Arp 29

Posted by dcrowson
on Sunday, April 9, 2017

Arp 29 (NGC 6946, Caldwell 12, UGC 11597, the Fireworks Galaxy and others) is an intermediate spiral galaxy located approximately 22 million light-years away on the border of Cepheus and Cygnus. It is highly obscured by one of the arms of our Milky Way galaxy.

Luminance – 24x600s – 240 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 8x300s – 40 minutes each – binned 2x2

360 minutes total exposure – 6 hours

Imaged October 23rd and 25th, 2016 from Dark Sky New Mexico at Rancho Hidalgo (Animas, New Mexico) with a SBIG STF-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT12RCT at f/8 2432mm.

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/33933842285/sizes/l

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