That's a great image Paul, lots of great detail of a very interesting galaxy, not to mention other "background" galaxies - it bodes well for your new scope

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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
The bulk of it looks liek galactic cirrus to me, the bottom right corner may eb something else but the rest looks liek dust.
Mike
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I agree with Mike. I am in the process of collecting data on this as well (only luminance collected so far); having stacked and combined the luminance it appears that there is galactic cirrus all over the place here (including the bottom right in your image).