Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Camelopardalis (Cam)  ·  Contains:  IC 342
IC 342 The Hidden Galaxy - redux, Michael Feigenbaum
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IC 342 The Hidden Galaxy - redux

IC 342 The Hidden Galaxy - redux, Michael Feigenbaum
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IC 342 The Hidden Galaxy - redux

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So here we have my effort with IC342 The Hidden Galaxy that I had been working on when I had my accident with a portable hard disk. I had published an intermediate image of this that was about half-processed. I had thought that I was OK with that but the idea that I had published something that I knew was not good really bothered me.

After thinking about that for a couple of days I decided to go back and re-acquire my luminance and Ha data. I heeded some good advice from Barry Wilson and did more Ha than I had done in the original image.

I was able to salvage the RGB data that I had done for this because it was still on the HDD of my imaging laptop.

In any case, here is the new image of this galaxy. I find this subject to be a very special target with the beautiful galaxy obscured by the clouds of gas and dust of our own Milky Way.

I am including both a cropped view and the full image. I like the full image because I think I caught some faint Hii signal in places.

I hope you like it and clear skies and good health to all! Comments / criticism always welcome...

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