{"id":17526,"date":"2026-10-14T20:53:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T18:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/?p=17526"},"modified":"2026-10-14T20:53:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T18:53:58","slug":"n6946-la-galaxie-du-feu-dartifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/n6946-la-galaxie-du-feu-dartifice\/","title":{"rendered":"N6946 &#8211; la galaxie du feu d&rsquo;artifice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NGC 6946 est une galaxie spirale &#8211; pas tr\u00e8s r\u00e9guli\u00e8re, on s&rsquo;accorde \u00e0 lui voir 4 bras &#8211; vue de face dans la constellation du Cygne.<br \/>\nElle a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9couverte par Herschel en 1798 et se situerait \u00e0 environ 18 millions d&rsquo;al.<br \/>\nOn la surnomme la galaxie du feu d&rsquo;artifice (\u00ab\u00a0Fireworks Galaxy\u00a0\u00bb).<br \/>\nCe surnom viendrait de ce que la galaxie est le si\u00e8ge de fr\u00e9quentes supernovas : dix observ\u00e9es depuis 1917.<\/p>\n<p>L&rsquo;image suivante a \u00e9t\u00e9 prise sur 4 nuits, avec deux cam\u00e9ras diff\u00e9rentes :<br \/>\n&#8211; une cam\u00e9ra couleurs, pr\u00eat\u00e9e par Alexandre (ASI294MCPro) 3x480s + 27x240s (132 minutes)<br \/>\n&#8211; une cam\u00e9ra monochrome (ASI1600MMPro) avec filtres L 46x120s (92 minutes) et R 62x120s (124 minutes).<br \/>\nCes cam\u00e9ras ont des capteurs de tailles fort proches (4\/3) mais la r\u00e9solution est diff\u00e9rente &#8211; respectivement 4.63\u00b5m et 3.8\u00b5m.<\/p>\n<p>Pour la combinaison du tout, j&rsquo;ai choisi de privil\u00e9gier la r\u00e9solution (r\u00e9f\u00e9rence = signal luminance).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/VC200L-N6946_Reduced.jpg\" data-lbwps-width=\"2184\" data-lbwps-height=\"1548\" data-lbwps-srcsmall=\"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/VC200L-N6946_Reduced-300x213.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17527\" src=\"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/VC200L-N6946_Reduced-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>La taille a ici \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duite \u00e0 50%, qualit\u00e9 JPEG 75.<br \/>\nSi vous voulez voir l&rsquo;image en pleine r\u00e9solution et sans perte de qualit\u00e9 (10 MB):<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.phenrotay.be\/GAS\/20261014\/VC200L-N6946_Full.jpg\" data-lbwps-width=\"4368\" data-lbwps-height=\"3096\" data-lbwps-srcsmall=\"https:\/\/www.phenrotay.be\/GAS\/20261014\/VC200L-N6946_Full.jpg\">https:\/\/www.phenrotay.be\/GAS\/20261014\/VC200L-N6946_Full.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Le champ fait 32 par 23 minutes d&rsquo;arc environ.<\/p>\n<p>Les d\u00e9tails techniques :<\/p>\n<p>Vixen VC200L, diam\u00e8tre 200 mm, focale 1800 mm (F\/9)<br \/>\nR\u00e9solution 0.435 arcsec\/pixel (voir plus haut)<br \/>\nFiltres Optolong (L et R)<br \/>\nMonture AP Mach1 guid\u00e9e<br \/>\nTraitement dans PixInsight.<\/p>\n<p>La structure la plus connue de NGC 6946 est le \u00ab\u00a0Hodge complex\u00a0\u00bb, mis en \u00e9vidence en 1967.<br \/>\nD&rsquo;abord vue comme un amas d&rsquo;\u00e9toiles, on pense aujourd&rsquo;hui que ce serait une galaxie naine en interaction avec NGC 6946.<br \/>\nLe complexe de Hodge est facile \u00e0 voir, un peu \u00e0 droite du centre de l&rsquo;image, un disque bleut\u00e9.<br \/>\nIl y a un aussi un reste de supernova (\u00ab\u00a0red ellipse supernova remnant\u00a0\u00bb), \u00e0 peine visible dans l&rsquo;image.<br \/>\nLe voyez-vous ? (Ra\/Dec J2000 : 20h 34m 29.1s et +60\u00b0 13&prime; 49&Prime;).<br \/>\nPas mal de trous ou lacunes dans les bras spiraux, dont la grande taille reste inexpliqu\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"kk-star-ratings kksr-auto kksr-align-left kksr-valign-bottom\"\n    data-payload='{&quot;align&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;17526&quot;,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;default&quot;,&quot;valign&quot;:&quot;bottom&quot;,&quot;ignore&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;reference&quot;:&quot;auto&quot;,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;count&quot;:&quot;12&quot;,&quot;legendonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;readonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;score&quot;:&quot;9.9&quot;,&quot;starsonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;best&quot;:&quot;10&quot;,&quot;gap&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;greet&quot;:&quot;Veuillez voter&quot;,&quot;legend&quot;:&quot;9.9\\\/10 - (12 votes)&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;18&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;N6946 - la galaxie du feu d\\u0026#039;artifice&quot;,&quot;width&quot;:&quot;225.2&quot;,&quot;_legend&quot;:&quot;{score}\\\/{best} - ({count} {votes})&quot;,&quot;font_factor&quot;:&quot;1.25&quot;}'>\n            \n<div class=\"kksr-stars\">\n    \n<div class=\"kksr-stars-inactive\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"1\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 18px; 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Elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9couverte par Herschel en 1798 et se situerait \u00e0 environ 18 millions d&rsquo;al. On la surnomme la galaxie du feu d&rsquo;artifice (\u00ab\u00a0Fireworks Galaxy\u00a0\u00bb). Ce surnom viendrait [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrophotos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17528,"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17526\/revisions\/17528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}