IC 342
IC 342
IC 342 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis. At magnitude 9.7 it is within reach of 4-6" (100-150 mm) telescope.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
9.7
apparent magnitude
-4 km/s
receding (RC3)
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). No reliable distance is available, so none is shown.