Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Camelopardalis (Cam)  ·  Contains:  IC 342  ·  PGC 13693  ·  PGC 165371  ·  PGC 166074  ·  PGC 166076  ·  PGC 166077  ·  PGC 166078  ·  PGC 166480  ·  PGC 166861  ·  PGC 2706070  ·  PGC 2719866
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Out-of-season catch: IC342 the Hidden Galaxy, Francesco Meschia
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Out-of-season catch: IC342 the Hidden Galaxy

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Out-of-season catch: IC342 the Hidden Galaxy, Francesco Meschia
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Out-of-season catch: IC342 the Hidden Galaxy

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Mid-november is almost as far as you can get from the usual galaxy season. Yet IC 342, the “Hidden Galaxy”, can be imaged all night and it’s quite a beautiful galaxy. It’s so close to the plane of the milky way that its light gets significantly dimmed and scattered by our own galaxy’s dust, so that this galaxy is effectively hidden by ours.

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