Galaxy · Camelopardalis

Galaxie Cachée

A large spiral galaxy seen face on, about 11.4 million light-years away in Camelopardalis.

In the catalogue, the thumbnail for this object is cropped in on its subject, so that it can be seen at card size. This view here is the whole photograph, as I produced it.

Its diameter comes close to 71,000 light-years. Its nickname comes from its position: it lies just behind the plane of the Milky Way. The gas and dust of our own galaxy absorb part of its light. It covers 21 arcminutes all the same, about two thirds of the diameter of the full Moon. Its light is therefore both spread out and dimmed. It is one of the objects in the catalogue where a long exposure pays off most.

Source: Wikipédia en français, IC 342. A figure wrong? Report it.

14m 1 shot

0 towards 22h 12m · cumulative integration on this object

Temps d'intégration : the total exposure time, the sum of every exposure stacked on an object.