IC 342 The Hidden Galaxy: located relatively close to the Milky Way. Despite its size and actual brightness, its location behind dusty areas near the galatic equator makes it difficult to observe, leading to the nickname.
After all the bitter cold winter temps I finally got some opportunity to go out an image, in witch my Canon 60 quites working after it get below 25f ill get an high temp error because the internal components freezes. I spent 2 nights imaging IC 342 each night from 7:00pm to 12:30am temps started out in the 40s and was 27 when I decided to stop. Hope you all enjoy, Clear skies!
Taken with a 16 year oldUnmodified Canon 60d through an Orion 8” newtonian astrograph with coma correcter, autoguided with a orion starshoot autoguider 60mm guide scope, all on a 11 year old Celestron AVX mount.
92×240” 6h 8’ no darks, bias, or flats ISO-650
Processing: deepsky stacker for regester, stacking.
Pixlinsight: Background ext, noisexterminator, blur terminator, histogram stretch, added mask curves saturations,
Photoshop: selective color adjustments, levels, unmask sharpening filter
Bortle skies 4
by jbastrophotos