Another star-rich image!!
not much to say about this one other than I feel I am going to run out of targets for my Zenithstar61.
(Wikipedia) NGC 6946, sometimes referred to as the
Fireworks Galaxy, is a face-on
intermediate spiral galaxy with a small bright nucleus, whose location in the sky straddles the boundary between the
northernconstellations of
Cepheus and
Cygnus. Its distance from Earth is about 25.2 million
light-years or 7.72
megaparsecs,
[2] similar to the distance of
M101 (NGC 5457) in the
constellationUrsa Major.
[5] Both were once considered to be part of the
Local Group,
[6] but are now known to be among the dozen bright spiral galaxies near the
Milky Way but beyond the confines of the Local Group.
[7]NGC 6946 lies within the
Virgo Supercluster.
[8]The galaxy was discovered by
William Herschel on 9 September 1798. It is heavily obscured by
interstellar matter due to its location close to the
galactic plane of the Milky Way.
[9] Due to its prodigious star formation it has been classified as an active
starburst galaxy.
[7] NGC 6946 has also been classified as a double-barred spiral galaxy, with the inner, smaller bar presumably responsible for funneling gas into its center.
[10][11] 
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