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| NGC 6946, The Fireworks Galaxy and NGC 6939 Open Cluster (See also UGC 11583) |
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| Location and Date | Modoc Wilderness, California 8/31/2011 |
| Telescope | Astro-Physics 130 Gran Turismo with the Astro-Tech Field Flattener |
| Mount | AP900GTO |
| Camera | Orion Parsec 8300M |
| Exposure | 16 x 900s for Luminance 1x1, 7 x 900s each for RGB binned 2x2 |
| Guiding | Orion StarShoot AutoGuider |
| Processing / Software | MaxIm DL 5.07 and Adobe Photoshop CS4 |
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