IC342 - Spiral Galaxy in
Camelopardalis
From SEDS.ORG:
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IC 342 was discovered in 1895 by W.F. Denning. Edwin P. Hubble
suspected it as a member of the Local Group, but later observations
showed that it is at a distance of at least about 6, perhaps more
probably 10 million light-years.
IC 342 lies at low galactic latitude, only 10.5 degrees from the
Galactic Equator, or the Milky Way's disc plane. Therefore, it is
heavily obscured by interstellar matter of the Milky Way; recent
estimates give an extinction of about 2.4 magnitudes; without this
extinction, this galaxy would be among the brightest in the sky, and
certainly have been discovered much earlier.
IC 342 forms a group with some large and many dwarf galaxies, the
so-called Maffei 1 group. It is one of two dominating members of that
group, the other being elliptical galaxy Maffei 1, which is even more
obscurred and was thus only discovered in 1968.
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Camera: Apogee U16M w Gen II Astrodon filters
Scope: Planewave 12.5" CDK
Mount: Paramount ME
Luminance: 19 x 10 min
RGB: 6/6/8 x 10min each
Acquired with
TSX and CCD-Commander
All processing in PixInsight but a High Pass Filter (5 pixel) and some adjustments to the background in PS CC 2019
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Lucknow, Ontario
Oct 2019
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