NGC 6946

NGC 6946, sometimes referred to as the Fireworks Galaxy, is a face-on intermediate spiral galaxy with a small bright nucleus, whose location in the sky straddles the boundary between the northern constellations of Cepheus and Cygnus. Its distance from Earth is about 25.2 million light-years.     This image consists of a total of 13hrs and 30min of exposure taken over two nights.  This is made up of the following individual frames:

I took the images from my backyard observatory using an Astro-Tech AT130EDT telescope with a  focal length 910mm.  I used the ZWO ASI 294MM Pro camera and Antlia LRGB filters.   All process using PixInsight.