Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Camelopardalis (Cam)  ·  Contains:  IC 342
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IC 342 The Hidden Galaxy, Earle Waghorne
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IC 342 The Hidden Galaxy

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IC 342 (Caldwell 5), despite having a diameter of 75,000 light years and being only 7-11 million light years from us, was only discovered in 1892. by William Frederick Denning. Of course the reason is that it lies close to the equator of the Milky Way and so is obscured by the galactic dust and stars, giving it its nickname of the Hidden Galaxy.

It is a face-on intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis. Edwin Hubble first thought that it was a member of the local group of galaxies but it is now considered to be the largest member of the IC 342/Maffel group, one of the closest to the local group. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_342

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