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avandonk
31-08-2013, 11:04 AM
This is just the centre three panels of a nine panel RGB mosaic of the SMC I am attempting in spite of the terrible weather.

Full res image. FoV 7.6 x 3.1 degrees.10MB

http://d1355990.i49.quadrahosting.com.au/2013_09/SMC_3P_mos_N.jpg

As usual colour gradients are another problem that makes it all very difficult.

All the data was collected with the SMC at the zenith so at my light polluted site I cannot do better than this.

How many globs can you see associated with the LMC?

Bert

mithrandir
31-08-2013, 07:31 PM
Bert, did you mean SMC?
According to Bica E., Dutra C.M. <Astron. J. 119, 1214 (2000)> there are at least 469 star clusters in the SMC + Bridge. They don't specifically identify GCs. Was that the sort of answer you expected?

Paddy
04-09-2013, 04:53 PM
Nice mosaic Bert. 13 official GCs for the LMC according to what I've been able to dig up and one with the SMC - NGC 121