Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Camelopardalis (Cam)  ·  Contains:  IC 342
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IC342 - The Hidden Galaxy, Frederick Steiling
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IC342 sits in Camelopardalis and is a really cool target. It's called the "Hidden Galaxy" because its view is cloaked by an arm of the Milky Way, and only through the dense star field and dust near the galactic equator can we make out the details of it.

This image is my first galaxy image to include an Hα component, which was used to further highlight the pinkish areas around the galaxy and are indicative of active star formation regions. It was really neat to finally point the scope toward one of these active galaxies.

This was a challenging image processing-wise because of all the dust in the region. I took my sweet time with it though, and was really pleased with how much galaxy data was present. I moved to 20' luminance subexposures for this, and I think it paid off.

More info: https://fuzzy.photos/astrophotos/35-ic342-the-hidden-galaxy

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IC342 - The Hidden Galaxy, Frederick Steiling