At last a clear, dark night - or at least half of it until the pesky moon rose.

I decided to "max out" and run two telescopes at the same time, well... a telescope and a camera lens.

The main event was the start of a mosaic of  Sh2-63 and Barnards galaxy using my Esprit 100.  

However I wanted to make the most of the photons reaching ground level, and so I dusted off my Star Adventurer mount that I started out in this hobby with, and lashed to it my Canon 200mm lens and ASI2400MC, to see what I could capture as a "support act" to the main gig.  

This combo is fun "seat of the pants" type imaging: manual positioning, manual focussing using Bahtinov, guiding in RA only etc.  

After initially trying to overreach myself by choosing RCW114 as my "first light" image with this rig, I decided to go for a lesser challenge in imaging the SMC and LMC.  [Possibly the first LMC of the season].

I gave both 45 x120sec.  While the LMC wasn't ideally placed - about 7hours over when I started -  I thought I might as well take advantage of living at -45 south and get it in before the moon rose.  And 

I was pretty happy with the way they came out, particularly since I left the rig pretty much to its own devices as I focussed on the main Sh2-63 event.   

I processed both in the identical fashion, and thought it would be fun to post both side-by-side - just for comparison.  I put a white line between, lest anyone think I am trying to fake up a mosaic by folding space.  [I leave that to the Guild Navigators].    Indeed, I hadn't realised just how relatively big (in angular size - even more given in physical size the distance)  the SMC is in relation to the LMC.  I sure to many (all?) others it was obvious, but until I did this I don't think I really appreciated the size of beauty of the SMC. [OK, so beauty my be going a little too far.] 

Not sure what plate solve will make of this, but I have enjoyed @Eddy Cochez annotated solar images recently and I thought a little bit of scale comparison can be instructive. 

The post-processing is deliberately light-on.  Very little noise reduction (just a touch of TGV), no deconvolution or image sharpening [images are sub 2px FWHM anyway].  I could have drizzled, but I figure  life is too short to drizzle with 6arcsec pixels.