4.7" Sky-Watcher

Object: IC 342
Obs. place: Hindsby, Sipoo, Finland
Date: 19./20.8.2009
Bortle class: Class 4 (rural / suburban transition)
NE Lim.mag: 6.6m (east)
Background sky: 3
Seeing: 2
Transparency: 2
Weather: +9.0°C, humidity ~90%, air pressure 1022 HPa, no wind

Description: Tasty little galaxy. Spotted @ 23x (2° 13') as a very faint, round glow. 60x displays a nearly stellar nucleus surrounded by a bright, round halo. Galaxy slightly elliptical in E-W direction. Several 11-13 magnitude stars can be spied inside the halo - only the brightest sketched. Details very difficult and annoying. Occasionally some mottling discerned and faint spiral arms suspected.
IC 342 with 4.7" Sky-Watcher @ 60x