IC 342, a 2022 book-end collaboration

[tomato]

This is a collaborative effort, 254 x 2 min taken in January with the Esprit 150/IMX571c rig and just under 11 hrs of Lum and 40 mins each of RGB captured through Oct-Dec with @Tomatobro's StellaLyra RC10/ASI1600, so around 21 hrs in total.

Combined in APP, processed in PI with all three RC Xterminator tools contributing. For some reason APP put a black border around the image, not sure why but I have left it in.

Thanks for looking

Annotated

[geeklee]

Great collaboration @tomato and @Tomatobro

Lovely detail throughout and well worth enjoying at full size 👍

PGC166077 is fascinating.  It's quite faint but it looks irregular (?) and yet you've got a touch of colour and detail coming through.  I looked at a few catalogues but couldn't find much to compare. NED link here.

Thanks for sharing.

[tomato]

Thanks, and once again there are some quite prominent small galaxies in the FOV that don’t seem to be in the Principle Galaxies Catalogue which does surprise me, given that it was published in 1989.