Arp 29

Cepheus
Category: One heavy arm

NGC 6946, a large low surface brightness spiral in Cepheus. Note the dark lane just north of the center nucleus. The galaxy is just 11 degrees from our galaxy plane. A small MAC galaxy is to the right.

Mag 9.6
Type Sc or SAB(rs)cd

Redshift is 0.00016 ( 48 km/s)

Photo: 2000-08-19, 12" f/10, 360 sec

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