This mix of IFN and a galaxy far beyond was captured with my double-RASA rig during 3 hours, so totally 6 hours. Two light buckets help when nights are still short.
Below is an interesting description of this area from Scott Rosen's web site (
http://www.astronomersdoitinthedark.com/index.php?c=165&p=584):
NGC 7497 is an edge on galaxy located at a distance of 59 million light years. In this astrophoto, the galaxy is seemingly surrounded by beautiful faint nebulosity. As it happens, the nebulae is actually about 60,000 times closer to us, located in the outer reaches of our own Milky Way Galaxy. The nebulosity shown in this image is part of MBM 54. MBM 54 is located about 900 light years from our solar system in the outer regions of our galaxy. This type of molecular clouds are found at high galactic latitudes (parts of the sky away from the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy). They are often referred to as galactic cirrus clouds or more commonly "Integrated Flux Nebulae" (IFN). These clouds are very faint and quite tricky to photograph. The IFN was first discovered in 1984 by the IRAS infrared satellite. In 1985, astronomers Magnani, Blitz and Mundy surveyed the IFN and developed their MBM catalog of 56 high galactic latitude molecular clouds. MBM 54 is one of the closer of these IFN clouds.
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