Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), Irregular Dwarf Galaxy

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is an irregular dwarf galaxy that is gravitationally bound to the Milky Way Galaxy. It is 210 KLY distant. It can be observed naked eye from the southern hemisphere. It is located in the constellations Tucana and Hydrus.

Image processed by Andrew Macica, original data from Telescope Live.

Imaging Details:

Observatory: Heaven's Mirror Observatory, Yass, Australia

Telescope: Takahashi FSQ-106ED

Aperture: 106 mm (4.17 inches), f/3.6

Focal Length: 382 mm (with 0.73x focal reducer)

Camera: QHY 600M Pro CMOS

Filters: LRGB

Total Exposure: 10 hours 10 minutes

Image Processing: PixInsight 1.8.9-3 Ripley (x64);

BlurXTerminator, NoiseXTerminator (RC Astro);

Adobe Photoshop 12.5.1;

Adobe Lightroom Classic 14.1.1

Instruction on PixInsight from Adam Block Studios.