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IFN appears as dust/clouds over entire image, above (and linked full-size, below).

OBJECT

M81 (Bode's w/Holmberg IX) and M82 (Cigar) ... and IFN     (image above is reduced-size crop | other sizes:  medium , original)

Distance:  12 million light years to M81 and M82

Telescope Takahashi FS-60C @ f/6.2
Mount Takahashi EM200 Temma II
Camera QSI 690wsg @ -10C
Filters Astrodon Tru-Balance I-Series LRGB Gen 2
Guider SX Lodestar
Settings 19x15min, 20x10minL (bin1x1); 8x5min ea RGB (bin2x2); AstroArt5, CS4, PI (cropped, 10xdarks/flats/fdarks/bias)
Date/Location

Notes
25 April 2020 (added to 25 Oct 2019) - Las Cruces, NM

LRGB only. From my new darker location in Las Cruces (moved in October 2019), the very faint Integrated Flux Nebula (IFN) can be seen - I added more LRGB data to the October data - and huge improvement. The IFN is a little-studied complex of diffuse dust and clouds in our own Milky Way Galaxy ~ (text from APOD).

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