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NCG 6946 - A spiral galaxy 10 million light years distant towards the direction of the Cygnus and Cepheus constellation border. This galaxy is thought to be one of the nearest outside of our local group. It has a weak barred structure at its core and is an active area of star birth and star death. Within the last 100 years, there have been 7 Supernovae recorded in this galaxy and on September 22nd, 2004 a new one was detected. Knowing that this galaxy was a good candidate for a Supernova, I began observing it in Spring 2004. On June 14th, I trained my CCD camera on this object to collect some image data. Of course, my imaging session was a bit early for the latest Supernova, but considering that it took about 10 millions years for the light to reach us here on Earth, I feel pretty good about being only a couple of months off. I placed a red dot in this image to designate the approximate location of the most recent Supernova known as 2004et. ST-7ME/CFW-8a with Tru-Balance color filter set on my Takahashi FS 102 working at f/8 with unguided sub-exposures of 30 seconds each L7/R8.5/G6.5/B5 Imaged at Tres Placitas Observatory Santa Fe, NM June 14th, 2004
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