IC342 Galaxy
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| IMAGE INFORMATION | OBJECT INFORMATION | ||
| Telescope | C9.25 on AP1200GTO | Designation | IC342 |
| Focal Length | F/5.8 1365mm | Position | RA: 03:46.8 Dec:+68 : 06 |
| Guiding | eFinder & SBIG guidehead | Type | Galaxies |
| Control | MaximDL | Magnitude | 12 |
| CCD Camera | SBIG ST2000XM | Size | 22' |
| Image Scale | 1.12 arcsec | Distance | 11 million Light Years |
| Filters | AstroDon LRGB | Constellation | Camelopardalis |
| Exposures | 12 x 5min 1x1, 8 x 4min ea RGB | ||
| Calibration | Flats, Bias only | ||
| Software | MaximDL, Photoshop CS2 | ||
| Date | Peach State Star Gaze Sept 2008 | ||
| Spiral Galaxy IC342 is located roughly 11 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Camelopardalis, “the giraffe.” Its face-on appearance in the sky—as opposed to our tilted and edge-on views of many other nearby galaxies, such as the large spiral galaxy Andromeda< IC342 has very low surface brightness which makes it a difficult object to image.
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