Firework galaxy with star cluster
About Image:
Towards the bottom left outside the Milky way galaxy is a face-on intermediate spiral galaxy 18 million light years away it’s known as the Firework galaxy it has small bright nucleus, whose location in the sky straddles the boundary between the northern constellations of Cepheus and Cygnus. Towards the upper right is a open star cluster NGC-6939 located in the Milky way galaxy, it is 5,890 light year’s away.
Technical details:
Optics: 8" f/3.9 Orion Newtonian Astrograph with coma corrector
Mount: Celestron AVX
Camera: Canon 60D unmodified
Guiding: 60mm guide scope with orion starshoot
Dates: June 16-2022, October 28-2022
Location: Taken at my Backyard observatory in Northwest Mo.
Exposure details: 7.2 total intergration hours 4-minutes subs, ISO-1250 no calibrations frams
Processing: Pixlnsight, photoshop
Towards the bottom left outside the Milky way galaxy is a face-on intermediate spiral galaxy 18 million light years away it’s known as the Firework galaxy it has small bright nucleus, whose location in the sky straddles the boundary between the northern constellations of Cepheus and Cygnus. Towards the upper right is a open star cluster NGC-6939 located in the Milky way galaxy, it is 5,890 light year’s away.
Technical details:
Optics: 8" f/3.9 Orion Newtonian Astrograph with coma corrector
Mount: Celestron AVX
Camera: Canon 60D unmodified
Guiding: 60mm guide scope with orion starshoot
Dates: June 16-2022, October 28-2022
Location: Taken at my Backyard observatory in Northwest Mo.
Exposure details: 7.2 total intergration hours 4-minutes subs, ISO-1250 no calibrations frams
Processing: Pixlnsight, photoshop
