Small Magellanic Cloud in SHO (Brian Boyle)

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Small Magellanic Cloud in SHO

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Small Magellanic Cloud in SHO

Finally, 1.5nights of clear skies settled in over Speargrass Flat - albeit in 50%+ moon. The Southern Sky is a little short of wide-field NB targets at this time of year, so I reluctantly had a go at the Small Magellanic Cloud (a galaxy I consider to have been touched by the ugly stick).

There are not a lot of SHO images of the SMC on Astrobin, and those that are are usually take with larger/faster scopes and very long integration times (up to over 300hours!). So my images really doesn't stand up against the likes of them, but I am pleased I persevered with the [SII], as the blue->green->red transition at the edges of the SNR look pretty cool.

[SII] 31 x 600sec
Halpha 39 x 600sec
[OIII] 21 x 600sec

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Description: A bit more colour and contrast

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Description: Although I am not a fan of starless images, I thought this might be one image where it could work. I didn't - as the resulting image is a bit blotchy. Probably too may stars for Starnet to cope - or I am simply not using it properly. Grateful for any advice on how to fix. CS Brian

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Description: A further colour tweak to make it a little more psychedelic.

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RA (center)	00h56m27s.77
RA (top/left)	01h20m44s.95
RA (top/right)	00h36m27s.47
RA (bottom/right)	00h29m26s.39
RA (bottom/left)	01h19m49s.33

Dec (center)	-72°47′38″.1
Dec (top/left)	-71°45′27″.3
Dec (top/right)	-71°20′12″.1
Dec (bottom/right)	-73°37′36″.7
Dec (bottom/left)	-74°06′26″.7

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