NGC 6822 (also known as Barnard's Galaxy, IC 4895, or Caldwell 57) is a barred irregular galaxy approximately 1.6 million light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius.
Part of the Local Group of galaxies, it was discovered by E. E. Barnard in 1884 (hence its name), with a six-inch refractor telescope.
It is one of the closer galaxies to the Milky Way. It is similar in structure and composition to the Small Magellanic Cloud.
It is about 7,000 light-years in diameter.
Large HII regions, also known as emission nebulas, are visible surrounding the small galaxy, particularly toward the upper right. Toward the lower left are bright stars that are loosely grouped into an arm.

The galaxy seems to float above the IFN - (Integrated Flux Nebulae) which are nebulae that are illuminated not by a single star but by the energy from the integrated flux of all the stars in the Milky Way.

At the upper Right of the image is a Blueish little surprise:
The Planetary nebula NGC 6818 (also known as Little Gem Nebula) with apparent size of 15"x22"!!!
It is at a distance of about 6000 light-year sand a diameter of about 0.5 light-year.

Imaged with the 16" f3.75 Dream Astrograph.
Apogee Alta U-16M camera.
L-RGB image

Lum - 60 min
RGB 6 minutes each Bin 2x2

(Total of 78 minutes )

Imaged from Tivoli farm in Namibia July 2013.