NGC 6946 also known 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 northern constellations of Cepheus and Cygnus.
Distance to Earth: 22.5 million light years
Radius: 20,000 light years
Magnitude: 9.6
Apparent size (V): 11.5 x 9.8 arcmin
Apparent magnitude (V): 9.6
Constellations: Cygnus, Cepheus