Hi,
After some issues with a borrowed CGEM, I managed to capture this image, after a couple of frames it was very clear that the background was not black and some sort of low brightness structure was there.
FSQ 106 @ f3 + atik1100. Around 10hrs total exposue
Agree Leo! It is a great time to buy KAF11000 cameras, people are selling them at very good prices to get the newest CMOS cameras. IME CCDs are better for long exposure deep space imaging.