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Small Magellanic Cloud, Ken Hall
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Small Magellanic Cloud

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Small Magellanic Cloud

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Stellar Serenity at Karijini: Capturing the Small Magellanic Cloud

Taken on my first week-long astro camping adventure in the spectacular Karijini National Park in Western Australia in August 2023. For the first time, I experienced the pleasure of having my equipment all set up and ready to go from the previous evening. I loved the simple rhythm of enjoying a gorge walk or swim during the day before settling into my camping chair, angled at the wondrous dark skies for another great imaging session.

The SMC was really just a fill-in target, however, on processing, the data was able to reveal some wonderful OIII detail in the emission nebulae NGC 346 and NGC 371.

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Small Magellanic Cloud, Ken Hall