Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Camelopardalis (Cam)  ·  Contains:  IC 342
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The dust that hides the Hidden Galaxy, Kees Scherer
The dust that hides the Hidden Galaxy
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The dust that hides the Hidden Galaxy

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The dust that hides the Hidden Galaxy, Kees Scherer
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The dust that hides the Hidden Galaxy

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It is a dusty region, 10 degrees from the Galactic Equator but that dust is not very bright. Almost all IC342 images show just the Galaxy, not the dust in the surrounding region. It was not my intention to image that dust, but when i made a luminance stack with all the 271 (300 second) subs i had, there it was....

Image dates:

15,16,17,18 November 2017, 2,3,4,5,7,8,9,10,11,12 January 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_342

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The dust that hides the Hidden Galaxy, Kees Scherer

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