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IC 342 V8, Stephen Duffy

IC 342 V8

IC 342 V8, Stephen Duffy

IC 342 V8

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Similar in size to large, bright spiral galaxies in our neighborhood, IC 342 is a mere 10 million light-years distant in the northern constellation Camelopardalis. IC 342 would otherwise be a prominent galaxy in our night sky, but it is hidden from clear view and only glimpsed through the veil of stars, gas and dust clouds along the plane of our own Milky Way galaxy. Even though IC 342's light is dimmed and reddened by intervening cosmic clouds, this image traces the galaxy's own obscuring dust, young star clusters, and glowing pink star forming regions along spiral arms that wind far from the galaxy's core. IC 342 may have undergone a recent burst of star formation activity and is close enough to have gravitationally influenced the evolution of the local group of galaxies and the Milky Way. Text from Astronomy Picture of the Day

Taken from Rodeo NM, November 2019

Mount: Paramount MYT Scope: TEC140 Camera: QSI683,

L: R: G: B: Ha = 8h: 2h: 2h: 2h: 3h

Reprocessed March 2023

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IC 342 V8, Stephen Duffy