SMC and 47 Tuc

[Retrograde (Pete)]

Beautiful Mike.
The gorgeous Ha blend combined with the great resolution & huge FOV is everything you could ask for.

[codemonkey (Lee)]

Stunning, Mike! This one's begging for an APOD.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by LostInSp_ce

There's so much happening I don't even know where to start, kinda like being in a candy store where you just want everything. The amount of detail you've captured is astonishing. We're very fortunate to have members of your calibre in here share their work. Thanks for posting!

That's very nice of you to say ..?.. Will Robinson? ..I'd address you by your real name but a quick search of IIS threads and posts shows, while you address others by their first name, nobody seems to know your first name ..

Originally Posted by Retrograde

Beautiful Mike.
The gorgeous Ha blend combined with the great resolution & huge FOV is everything you could ask for.

Thanks a lot Pete

Originally Posted by codemonkey

Stunning, Mike! This one's begging for an APOD.

Thanks Lee

Meah APOD is a lucky dip, they select all sorts of images to feature, from really good or interesting ones, to pretty shocking ones of the imaged to death favourites ...so who knows, I guess this image is somewhere in that range..?

[topheart]

Wow!!!
An awesome image Mike!! I really love it.
Cheers,
Tim

[beren]

Amazing image well done

[DJT (David)]

Wow, that’s a bit special. The processing has delivered a drop dead gorgeous image.

I have just finished reading Lisa Harvey-Smiths “when Galaxies collide” and the SMC and LMC feature along with how the Magellanic stream was formed and what influences the shape of the galaxies. It’s a good read as is the paper you linked to.


Top job

[DavidU (Dave)]

Superb Mike !

[John K]

That's great Mike,

Very nice colour and composition!

Clear skies.

John K.

[Decimus (Richard)]

Simply stunning, Mike. A superb example of astro-imaging!

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by topheart

Wow!!!
An awesome image Mike!! I really love it.
Cheers,
Tim

Originally Posted by beren

Amazing image well done

Thanks Tim and Beren

Originally Posted by DJT

Wow, that’s a bit special. The processing has delivered a drop dead gorgeous image.

I have just finished reading Lisa Harvey-Smiths “when Galaxies collide” and the SMC and LMC feature along with how the Magellanic stream was formed and what influences the shape of the galaxies. It’s a good read as is the paper you linked to.

Top job

Gee, cheers heaps Dave and sounds like an interesting read.

Originally Posted by John K

That's great Mike,

Very nice colour and composition!

Clear skies.

John K.

Thanks John

Originally Posted by DavidU

Superb Mike !

Originally Posted by Decimus

Simply stunning, Mike. A superb example of astro-imaging!

Wow, glad you think so David and Richard

Mike

[Slawomir (Suavi)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Cheers Sous-vide There are quite a few shots out there showing both globs, just google Small Magellanic Cloud . Had I had the 645 reducer it would have fitted 100% of the SMC in, both globs and a little space around....this was close though


Mike

That relatively speaking inexpensive 645 reducer would be a great fun

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Slawomir

That relatively speaking inexpensive 645 reducer would be a great fun

I agree...but the more than AU$4000 delivered price tag is 1/2 the cost of the whole scope ...so kinda off the table ...with a smaller chip than the 16803 I could have gone with a cheaper reducer....

Mike

[Slawomir (Suavi)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

I agree...but the more than AU$4000 delivered price tag is 1/2 the cost of the whole scope ...so kinda off the table ...with a smaller chip than the 16803 I could have gone with a cheaper reducer....

Mike

Totally understand, was teasing you only. I also have no spare kidney left

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Sakib Rasool has labelled this image so you can find lots of objects within the SMC, thought some might find it useful

SMC Labelled

Cheers

Mike

[multiweb (Marc)]

Top shot and nice reference. Super sharp.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

Top shot and nice reference. Super sharp.

Cheers Marc, hope it influences some to hit a few of the less imaged bits of the SMC with some FL