An image from yesterday evening. The image of the IC342 galaxy was taken with the DWARF II with an exposure time of 1 hour.

IC342

 

IC 342 is a barred spiral galaxy with an active Hubble-type SAB(rs)cd galactic nucleus in the constellation of Giraffe in the northern starry sky. It is around 11 million light years away from the Milky Way, has a diameter of around 60,000 light years and is classified as a Seyfert-2 galaxy.

The galaxy is located near the galactic equator, where dust veils make it difficult for amateur and professional astronomers to observe the object. IC 342 is one of the two brightest galaxies in the Maffei group of galaxies, the group of galaxies closest to the Local Group.

Shooting data

 


IC342 Annotations

 

IC342 Finding Chart