IC 342 revisited

Data from last summer - revisited now that I better understand the deconvolution and histogram equalization tools in PixInsight. Color version to follow soon...

 

Description lifted from NASA APOD:

IC 342 is a mere 7 million light-years distant in the long-necked, northern constellation Camelopardalis. A sprawling island universe, IC 342 would otherwise be a prominent galaxy in our night sky, but it is almost hidden from view behind the veil of stars, gas and dust clouds in the plane of our Milky Way galaxy

 

Technical Details:

 

(RA, Dec) center: (56.6500584261, 68.0845707259) degrees

Orientation: 0.254362629303 deg E of N

Pixel scale: 0.665364108277 arcsec/pixel

 

Acquired on August 31, 2013 from Lake Sonoma, Ca

L: 8 x 20m

Pixel scale: 0.65 arcsec/pixel

 

Main Camera: QSI 583 WSG

Guide Camera: SXV Lodestar (on OAG)

Mount: Astro-Physics Mach 1

Scope: Celestron Edge HD 8" (FL: 2145 mm)

SXV Adaptive Optics

Image Aquisition software MaximDL

Registed, Calibrated and Stacked in MaximDL

Post Processed in PixInsight 1.8 and Photoshop CS6

Done