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NGC 6946, The Fireworks Galaxy and NGC 6939 Open Cluster
(See also UGC 11583)

 
   
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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