Small Magellanic Cloud and 47 Tucanae above Fig Tree Hill, Queensland Australia. (Rory Broesder)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Tucana (Tuc) · Contains: 47 Tuc Cluster · NGC 104 · NGC 292 · Part of the constellation Tucana (Tuc) · Small Magellanic Cloud · The star β1 Tuc · The star β2 Tuc · The star ε Tuc · The star ζ Tuc · The star η Tuc · The star ι Tuc · The star κ Tuc · The star λ Hyi · The star λ Tuc · The star ρ Tuc · λ2 Tuc

Small Magellanic Cloud and 47 Tucanae above Fig Tree Hill, Queensland Australia., Rory Broesder

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Small Magellanic Cloud and 47 Tucanae floating peacefully above Fig Tree Hill, Queensland Australia.

A recapture of my first deep space photography targets - The Small Magellanic Cloud and 47 Tucane. The difference 10 months can make is pretty awesome.

I found a site I could setup and shoot directly south towards a large fig tree on a hill. My plan was to do a single portrait frame that encompassed the fig tree and the Small Magellanic Cloud. However my Google Street View approximations were off and I ended up having to capture the photo as a 3(landscape)-panel mosaic in order to fit the galaxy and the tree into the true field of view.

I wasn't planning on this being my first time shooting a deepscape and an astro mosaic, but in the end, I am happy with the results.

The Small Magellanic Cloud and 47 Tucane aren't the most impressive widefield targets, however, they hold a soft spot for me. They were the first astro targets I saw appear from stacking photos. I think this photo conveys some of the awe I felt the first time I captured them.

I found editing this image very challenging. Car headlights, along with the target being low to the horizon caused unwanted gradients in the mosaic and atching the sky with the foreground was also not an easy task. I have spent many many hours on this photo.

2600mc-pro, Rokinon135mm, heq5, unfiltered, Bortle 3, 3-panel mosaic. Everything was shot from the exact same position, night, and focal length.

Top panel 5 hours@ 2 min @ f2
Bottom 2 panels 1 hour@ 2min @ f2
Foreground - 4 blue hour shots 200ms (car),30sec,60sec @ f2

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