IC342 - Version 2

[Sam]

Image: 65 X 360secs at ISO 800, 12 X 360 at ISO 400

Camera: Modded Canon 1000D

Telescope: Skywatcher 250px, 10" reflector

Autoguiding: ST80, QYH5, EQ6 Syntrek

Software: PHD, EQMOD, PixInsight, DSS

Here's my revisit of IC 342. At 7hr 42mins it's probably about enough to get a reasonable result. If I ever had another shot at this one I'd crank up the subs to 420 or 480 secs to try and get a bit more of the fainter bits. The processing was pretty hard work. The weather is certainly making it tough to get extra data for this! The data has been collected over four nights from last month and two nights ago.

Sam

[Taff]

That's a cracker with you Sam' fantastic capture at the end.Mark

[Deneb]

phew, another POW

[Beyond_Vision]

Another great capture to add to your Galaxy collection Sam:)

[Whippy]

I disagree Sam, that's not a reasonable result, that's a great one! Nearly 8 hours' worth on any other galaxy would bring out a wealth of data but this one is certainly a challenge! Superb stuff .

Tony..

[Psychobilly]

Nicely captured and processed Sam

Peter....

[ncjunk]

Nice pic!

Neil C

[Sam]

Thank you very much for the comments. This has been a real tough one to get much detail out of. Tonight I'm not sure if I'll go after any more for this or try another object. Either way I'm going to go up to 8min subs as I've got the tracking sorted - just have to hope not too many aeroplanes blast through.

Sam

[Psychobilly]

Sam

I reckon once you get out to about 8 hours it take a lot more exposure too bring out much more... If we were guaranteed a load of clear nights I would spend more than 8 hours on a target but think thats its a good compromise ...

Peter...

[Tom OD]

Great to see another large close up. Another great shot. I can see why its called the Firecracker Galaxy.

[johnh]

You worked hard to get those faint bits developed, great result as I had not heard of this galaxy before. John.

[moocher]

:headbang::headbang:about sums it up!!

Alan:)