Discovered by Herschel in 1798, this is NGC 6946, sometimes referred to as the Fireworks Galaxy. It is a face-on spiral galaxy with a small bright nucleus, whose location in the sky straddles the boundary between the northern constellations of Cepheus and Cygnus. Its distance from Earth is about 25.2 million light-years and it is 87,300 light years across.

The galaxy got its name because of an unusually large number of supernovae observed in it—about ten in the last century.

Taken early August this year over 2 nights, 5 hours of exposures ( 60 x 300 seconds each ).