If you follow this link: http://www.galaxyimages.com/UNP1.html you can read all about the Unexplored Nebulae Project and the Integrated Flux Nebula. It's fascinating and shows how significant a contribution "amateurs" can make to modern astronomy.
In a nutshell (and this is very simplified, you should read about it on the link above) the IFN are high-latitude nebulae "high above the plane of the Milky Way, many around the North Galactic Pole and Polaris...reflecting and being ionized by the integrated flux of all the stars in the Milky Way Galaxy" to quote Steve Mandel.
In a nutshell (and this is very simplified, you should read about it on the link above) the IFN are high-latitude nebulae "high above the plane of the Milky Way, many around the North Galactic Pole and Polaris...reflecting and being ionized by the integrated flux of all the stars in the Milky Way Galaxy" to quote Steve Mandel.
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