IC342 'The Hidden Galaxy'

[Robculm]

I'm still trying to solve some problems with diverging diffraction patterns on bright stars, so thought I'd try a target without any!

Definitely some room for improvement on the processing, but generally speaking I'm quite pleased with this so thought I'd share for comments / suggestions please!

On this version I've kept the stars quite 'bright', as although they distract a little from the galaxy, it's such a beautiful 'foreground', seems a shame to suppress it!

It's around 6h of data, 300s exposures.

[CCD-Freak]

Very nice image of a difficult object.   Great star color.

This one is on my target list.

 

 

 

Edited January 31, 2022 by CCD-Freak

[Robculm]

Thanks John 😀. Yes, I was pleased with the colour in general and it was straight from the 'default' on startools, no tweaking!

It's definitely a worthy target, but doesn't seem wildly popular!

[CCD-Freak]

I shot it back at the Okie-Tex star party in 2013 with a SXVF-M25C through an AT8RCF but yours is better.  (^8

 

 

Edited February 3, 2022 by CCD-Freak

[CCD-Freak]

Edited February 3, 2022 by CCD-Freak

[PXR5]

Beautifully stunning image!

Beautiful colours

[Shibby]

As others have said: fantastic, strong colour. I started capturing this the other night and doubt I'll get such a vibrant result!

[City9Town0]

Very nice... tempted to have ago at it.

[City9Town0]

I've just tried this on a 'soupy' sky and got this Canon 450D jpeg... looking at the line of bright stars running slightly left of centre of the galaxy it seems reversed compared with the above? Galaxy small and slightly right of centre...??? As a novice... Help!

[Robculm]

Yep, that's it. Camera is just 'rotated' compared with mine. Here's a single 'sub' which I've rotated to match the orientation of your image & cropped a little. Not sure your exposure time etc, but the star shape looks pretty good 👍

[MKHACHFE]

Stunning image mate. Consider me blown away by the quality of your work.

 

Cheers