NGC 6946, Fireworks galaxy

[oernulfs (Ørnulf)]

5 hrs (30x600s), flats, darks, biases.
Camera: Atik 383l+ color
Scope: C9,25 with f6,3 reducer
Guiding: TS-optics 11mm off-axis guider, Loadstar camera
Mount: Eq 8
Location: Son, Norway
Processed in PixInsight

Larger version here: http://www.astrobin.com/270851/

[PRejto (Peter)]

Beautiful galaxy and very colorful field. Nice job!

Peter

[Atmos (Colin)]

Quite a nice level of detain in the galaxy structure, well done

[RobC (Rob)]

Great image , lots of detail , well done.

Rob

[Regulus (Trevor)]

A nice result. Composition is good too (it's always attractive to me to see a galaxy in a large field like that).
Well done.

Trev

[RickS (Rick)]

Hi Ørnulf, nice image but the galaxy looks a bit soft to me. Also missing some of the colour that seems typical (though this is always a matter of personal taste and colour is always difficult for a galaxy seen through dust.) I have some of my own NGC6946 data that I hope to process soon, so I have been looking critically at quite a few renditions of this object. I hope my comments are helpful...

Cheers,
Rick.