Type |
Location |
r.a. |
dec. |
Size |
Magnitude |
Distance |
Galaxy |
Cep |
20h34.8 |
60°09' |
11'x10' |
9 |
22Mly |
NGC 6946, (also known as the Fireworks Galaxy, Arp 29, and
Caldwell 12), is an intermediate beautiful spiral galaxy about 22 million
light-years away, in the constellation Cepheus.

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Date |
Telescope |
Binning |
Exp Time (s) |
Special processing |
Notes |
Sep 7, 2002 |
Centurion
18" |
L 1:1
RGB 2:1 |
L 4x600
R,G,B 600 |
Virtual
pixel, Max Entropy, DDP |
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