NGC 292 HOO up close and personal (Paul Muller)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Tucana (Tuc) · Contains: NGC 290 · NGC 292 · Small Magellanic Cloud

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NGC 292 HOO up close and personal

A short intergalactic stroll of just 200,000 light years and you'll find yourself in what many astronomers now believe to be a companion galaxy that's about to "crash" into our own Milky Way for the first time. Let's hope they have fully comprehensive insurance, you know the rule, you break it you pay for it!

Technically, this is an image of NGC 292 (the Small Magellanic Cloud) in the same way that the picture of an ant could be called an ant colony, in that it's only a very small part of the "core" of our companion dwarf galaxy.

This image was an opportunistic shot for me, as I was testing out how my filters would cope with a newly installed street light - not that well it turns out, but well enough for me to capture what appears to be an evil eye in teh upper right hand corner surveying a double headed giant stomping through the galaxy. Which reminds, me, I need to take my meds....

If you look carefully, at around 8 o'clock there appears to be half of a bubble like structure that to my untrained eye looks to be the outer shell of a supernova remnant or perhaps the ejecta of a hot young star - perhaps someone can identify it.

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RA (center)	00h52m38s.215
RA (top/left)	00h49m02s.614
RA (top/right)	00h48m53s.116
RA (bottom/right)	00h56m23s.758
RA (bottom/left)	00h56m13s.117

Dec (center)	-72°47′53″.80
Dec (top/left)	-72°23′24″.13
Dec (top/right)	-73°12′12″.38
Dec (bottom/right)	-73°12′10″.22
Dec (bottom/left)	-72°23′22″.85

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