Background (various sources)

IC 342 (also known as Caldwell 5) is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis, located relatively close to the Milky Way. Despite its size and actual brightness, its location behind dusty areas near the galactic equator makes it difficult to observe, leading to the nickname "The Hidden Galaxy".
What does make it interesting is that it’s close — the distance is roughly 10–13 million light years — and in the sky it happens to be located near the plane of our own galaxy. That means we’re looking through all the gas and dust and junk in between Earth and IC 342, which obscures it greatly. 
Were it not obscured by so much interstellar matter, the Hidden Galaxy would be one of the brightest galaxies in our sky. It appears near the equator of the Milky Way’s pearly disk, which is crowded with thick cosmic gas, dark dust, and glowing stars that all obscure our view.
It’s apparent magnitude is 9.1. 

I saw an image of IC342 posted recently on AB and I was not familiar with this target. After reading about IC342, I found it very intriguing. 
I looked in Astrobin for images of IC342 sorting by “Likes”. Sorting by “Likes” not only yields nice images, but it gives as better representation of the target’s coloration as opposed to simply looking at all images which seem to have quite a bit of variance between coloration.

IC342 is tiny in this field!!!! 
I was hoping that at 40 degrees rotation, I could frame it with the two tiny galaxies in opposing corners. Unfortunately, PGC 2722040 and NGC 1469 (bottom left) are mag 15 and 14  respectively and UGCA 86 (bottom right) is mag 13.5 and really don’t offer much to the view.
The background was splotchy scattered dust, so I tried to purposely reduced it some to try to show off IC342.

Details in IC342 are limited, but I found this to be true of most images of this galaxy. 
However, the Ha areas do shine through somewhat which is surprising since I was using an OSC camera and IDAS LPS D-1 filter designed to remove sodium vapor light pollution. 

9+ hours on this target is nowhere nearly enough!!!

Thanks for looking and comments welcome.

Jim