Outskirts of the SMC - to the south (Claudio Tenreiro)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Tucana (Tuc) · Contains: IC 1662 · NGC 419 · NGC 456 · NGC 460 · NGC 465 · NGC 602 · PGC 144157 · PGC 144159 · PGC 252994 · PGC 253093 · PGC 253105 · PGC 253443 · PGC 253929 · PGC 254144 · PGC 254541 · PGC 255798 · PGC 255970 · PGC 256107 · PGC 256435 · PGC 257456 · PGC 257667 · PGC 257751 · PGC 258238 · PGC 258472 · PGC 258547 · PGC 259065 · PGC 259387 · PGC 259470 · PGC 260073 · PGC 260688 · And 1 more.

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Outskirts of the SMC - to the south

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Outskirts of the SMC - to the south

Very nice part of the south region of the Small Magellan Cloud. Full of objects of different kind, particularly star clusters.
There are a lot more objects than the ones you get from plate solving, and, as you can find in other AB images, it is an ideal zone for NB imaging, particularly close to the clusters NGC 460 and 456, that are mixed clusters with nebula.
I did not apply aggressive background reduction or star reduction in order to have the image as close to what comes from the PI "traditional" stretching (Removal of gradients, photometric colour calibration, "slow" stretching using histogram, light background reduction and curves), slight second curve to get more contrast using GIMP.

It is interesting to explore the amount of stars at the background, at first sight they look like noise, I saw a similar comment, a few days ago, regarding a picture of a galaxy, where looking at high resolution you see that they are actually too many stars. Here is not as dramatic as in that case but the brownish colour is driven actually by lots of stars.

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RA (center)	01h18m51s.59
RA (top/left)	01h31m05s.55
RA (top/right)	01h07m09s.20
RA (bottom/right)	01h05m45s.17
RA (bottom/left)	01h31m29s.56

Dec (center)	-73°18′51″.5
Dec (top/left)	-72°42′01″.5
Dec (top/right)	-72°39′10″.5
Dec (bottom/right)	-73°52′50″.6
Dec (bottom/left)	-73°56′01″.0

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