The Small Magellanic Cloud can be seened accompanied with the Globular cluster 47 TUC (at upper Right) and NGC 362 (at upper Left)

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a dwarf galaxy, It is classified as a dwarf irregular galaxy.
It has a diameter of about 7,000 light-years and contains several hundred million stars.
It has a total mass of approximately 7 billion times the mass of the Sun.

Some speculate that the SMC was once a barred spiral galaxy that was disrupted by the Milky Way to become somewhat irregular. It contains a central bar structure.
At a distance of about 200,000 light-years, it is one of the Milky Way's nearest neighbors.


With a mean declination of approximately −73 degrees, it can only be viewed from the Southern Hemisphere and the lower latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.
It is located in the constellation of Tucana and appears as a hazy, light patch in the night sky about 3 degrees across.
It looks like a detached piece of the Milky Way (WIKI)

Imaged with a Canon 200mm F2.8 lens attached to SBIG ST8300 camera.

HA-L-RGB image.
Ha for 30 minutes
Luminance for 30 minutes
RGB 10 min each (BIN 2)

Total of 1:30

Imaged from Tivoli farm in Namibia July 2013.