IC 342

Spiral Galaxy

Constellation- Camelopardalis

Right Ascension: 03h 47m 18s

Declination: +68° 07' 01"

Distance: 14 million light years

Visual Brightness: 9.0 mag

Apparent Dimension: 20 arc minutes

Image information-

Date taken- November 13, 2004

Telescope/Focal length/Camera/Temperature- NexStar11 GPS @ f/6.8, ST-8XE NABG @ -20C, autoguided with CCDSoft Ver. 5.0

Integrations- LRGB, L = 8 x 600 seconds binned 1x1, RGB = 6 x 600 seconds each binned 2x2

Processing- Flats and darks, aligned and combined in CCDsoft Ver 5.0, RGB combined in Astroart 2.0, L and RGB combined in Photoshop CS