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NGC 602 region

Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies 5 million year young star cluster NGC 602.
Surrounded by natal gas and dust, NGC 602 is just upper right from the center of this field of view.
It has the angular size of the Full Moon on the sky.
The cluster itself is about 200 light-years in diameter (NASA)

The Ha (red) data is Extremely faint - It needed more than 6 HRS in BIN 2 to achieve this outcome - and more could be used.

Ha -L - RGB image
Ha for 6.5 Hrs (Bin 2)
Luminance for 1 Hr (Bin 1)


RGB 30 min each for star color(Bin 2)
Total of 9 HRS

Imaged with the 16" f3.75 Dream Astrograph.
Apogee Alta U-16M camera.

Imaged from Tivoli farm in Namibia August 2015.

Apogee USB/Net
full exif

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Sakib 12-Jun-2016 00:00
Spectacular image, your processing skills are exceptional! However I think the composition is better if it is rotated to north up and NGC 602 is more noticeable then. Also OIII exposures should have been taken, nebulae in the SMC and LMC contain lots of OIII.
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