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03-Oct-2013

Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) & 47 Tuc in Tucanae, 03 October 2013

Equipment:
Canon EF 70-200mm F/4L USM @ 200mm f/4
HorusBennu Tripod C-3540V, LX-5 Ball Head
Hutech Modified Canon 40D
200 x 2 second exposures @ ISO 1600
Processed in DeepSkyStacker & Photoshop

Comments:
No EQ mount, just a bit of fun with a bunch of short exposures while in the Flinders Ranges...
Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) – irregular dwarf galaxy (large open cluster of ‘stars’ centre bottom of photo). Also shown is 47 Tucanae (big globular cluster of stars – top right), and a smaller globular cluster (NGC362) to the left of the SMC.


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