Thought you guys might like to see this image which I have just finished reprocessing to bring out the faint nebula a little better.
I took it last August with the 80ED mounted on the 12" LX200GPS with the SXV-H9 using 10min subs and it needed 4 hrs of luminace to show it even this faintly!
There are a few faint galaxies in the soup too including the nice 12th mag blue spiral IC 4633:
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...55931051/large
This type of object has recently been coined "Intergrated Flux Nebulae" by Steve Mandel in the US who is cataloging such clouds in the northern hemisphere. This piece, of a much larger area is at Declination -77deg in an otherwise blank area of the southern sky:
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...61216974/large
The blue spiral galaxy, visible in the narrow deeper colour version, is just left of centre in this wide angle negative view.
Mike
