ngc 6946 and open cluster ngc 6939
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I like this pair in the wider field.... lots of colorful milky way stars to add things... and, a few faint fuzzies too. The most visible of those
is UGC 11583, a 17.0 magnitude spiral in the Virgo cluster that is below and right of the cluster, between the two brighter stars.

Telescope	Explore Scientific David H. Levy Comet Hunter Maksutov-Newtonian 152mm f/4.8 mounted piggyback on Meade LX 200 Classic 12 inch
Camera	Canon XT/350d modified with Baader type 1 filter by Hap Griffin
Exposure	36 five-minute sub-exposures at iso 1600
Guiding	PHD Guide from Stark labs with Meade DSI pro I on Meade 12-inch LX 200 Classic at f/3.3
Software	Images acquired, calibrated, stacked and color corrected with Nebulosity 2.2.4 from Stark Labs. Further processing in Photoshop CS 3.