Ever since reading about these faint nebulosities illuminated by the glow of our galaxy in Malin's "Colours of the galaxies" I've wondered if my rig would be capable of collecting a half decent image from a dark sky site. Last week I decided to have a go from 10 Chain Hill after the troublesome high cloud cleared. Initial subs didn't seem too promising, but as can the case something started to emerge after calibration and processing. A number of frames had to be discarded due to the mild breeze and some dew effects, but I was lucky in the end to be able to keep imaging through to astronomical twilight without the developing fog reaching me.
No Apod of course, but I'm chuffed to pick out the IFN in this limited field (MW9) and some of the far flung galaxies behind (IC 4633 and others).
8" Newt, QHY9
LRGB 30:30:40:40 (all 10min subs, unbinned)
(do yourself a favour and hunt down Jase's or Mike Sidonio's fantastic renditions from previous years too if this is of interest - this is quite a tiny chunk of the action for this immense cloud. See also
http://www.galaxyimages.com/UNP_IFNebula.html )