Image Description and Details : Rare are the spiral galaxies that we see exactly from the front. The spiral galaxy NGC6946 located in the constellation Cepheus is about 10 million light-years away.
She hides behind the curtain of stars formed by the Milky Way which crosses the constellation of Cepheus. Its orange central bulb is made up of old stars while the blue
young star clusters dominate in the spiral arms. Red reveals the presence of areas where stars are born.
The activity is so inetnse that one calls this galaxy, the galaxy of the fireworks.

When the light from this galaxy began its journey to strike my photographic in May 2022, the human line appeared (Sahelanthropus tchadensis) on Earth.

The galaxy is accompanied by an open cluster NGC6939 located in the lower right. Much closer to us than the galaxy (4000 light years), its age has been revealed between 1.0 and 1.3 billion years!

🔭: ASA Newton 254/950 F3.6
⚙️: Paramount MyT
📷: ZWO ASI2400MC à -10°C + rotateur Artesky
🕶: IDAS LPS-P3
🎯: Skywatcher Evostar72ED + ASI290MM mini
💻: TheSkyX pro, NINA, PHD2, AstroPixel Processor, PixInsight, Photoshop
⏱: 19h50' (119 x 600”)
🌍: Lorraine, France
📆: Over 4 nights : 3 may 2022 · 6 may 2022 · 9 may 2022 · 21 may 2022

Copyright: Thomas LELU

Image Description and Details : Imaging telescope: LACERTA 200/800 Carbon FotoNewton Edition 2021
Imaging camera: QHYCCD QHY183M
Mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro
Guiding telescope: QHYOAG-LACERTA 200/800 Carbon FotoNewton Edition 2021
Guiding camera: ZWO 290MM Mini
Coma corrector: GPU Optics GPU Komakorrektor

Baader Planetarium B 1.25" CCD Filter: 50x210" (2h 55') (gain: 11.00) -15C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium G 1.25" CCD Filter: 50x210" (2h 55') (gain: 11.00) -15C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium Luminance 1.25": 400x90" (10h) (gain: 11.00) -15C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium R 1.25" CCD Filter: 50x210" (2h 55') (gain: 11.00) -15C bin 1x1
Integration: 18h 45'

RA center: 20h 34' 41"
DEC center: +60° 8' 13"
Pixel scale: 0.620 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 358.766 degrees
Field radius: 0.552 degrees

Location: Kalliopi, Lemnos, Greece

Copyright: ©2021 Stamatis Paraschakis

Image Description and Details :

This is an image of NGC 6946, also known as the Fireworks Galaxy. It is a face-on intermediate spiral galaxy about 25 million light years away near the boundary of the constellations of Cepheus and Cygnus. It spans about 40,000 light years in diameter, which is about one third the size of the Milky Way. It is classified as a starburst galaxy which means there is a lot of star forming regions as can be seen in the magenta regions in the image.

Telescope: Planewave CDK-17
Camera: FLI PL16803
Mount: Paramount ME
Luminance: 27x20 minutes (binned 1x1)
Red: 16x15 minutes (binned 1x1)
Green: 16x15 minutes (binned 1x1)
Blue: 16x15 minutes (binned 1x1)


Copyright: Bernard Miller