IC342

Object: IC342 (Caldwell 5)

Type: Galaxy

Distance: 13 million light years

Constellation: Camelopardalis

Date: 31 December 2005
Equipment: SXV-H9, Vixen 114mm f5.3 ED refractor

Subframes: 8 x 300 second, unguided, no darks or flats.

A mediocre effort that shows the limitations of unguided exposures. This dreadfully dim galaxy needs more and longer subs to do it justice, I think, but even the GPDX won't track that well unguided for the lengths of subs probably needed.

Nevertheless, the spiral structure just about shows up through the noise.