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Thursday, September 25, 2008

Galaxy and Cluster, NGC 6946 and NGC 6939

An interesting view, here a nearby spiral galaxy, NGC 6946, highly obscured by interstellar matter of our own galaxy is contrasted in this photograph by a distant open cluster, NGC 6939, in the same field of view.

Since 1917, eight supernovae have been observed in NGC 6946.

Unguided, 204 x 15 second JPEG frames, 1600 ASA, with noise reduction enabled.

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