Spiral Galaxy NGC 6946
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luminance: 17 x 300 sec deconvolved with CCDStack, RGB 300sec (x 8R, x 13G, x11B) unbinned. Images recorded between 9/6 and 10/1/08.
Equipment: Meade 14" LX200 on Paramount ME with SBIG ST-2000XM with AO8
Processing: CCDStack, processed in Photoshop CS2 with Noel Carboni's Astronomy Tools.
This lovely galaxy in Cepheus is also called the Firecracker Galaxy. This was my first target using my friend's equipment. The red channel is through a red photometric Johnsons Cousins filter, because I have been doing some exoplanet transit work and am too lazy to change the filter back to "pretty picture" red.