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Photographed just before Halloween in 2017, this spooky scene in the constellation Pegasus is dominated by faint clouds of interstellar dust that reside at the outer fringe of our galaxy, known as the IFN (Integrated Flux Nebulae), which are illuminated by the combined light of the entire Milky Way. In the center of the image, and thousands of times farther away than the IFN at 60 million light years, is spiral galaxy NGC 7497. At the upper left is irregular galaxy PGC 70596 at about the same distance, while several smaller and more distant galaxies are scattered throughout the image. This 9-hour LRGB exposure was captured using a 140mm refractor.