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Originally Posted by Stefan Buda
Excellent! I've been waiting for over a year for someone to have a go at this.
Mine was done with an ancient 50mm Pentax lens: http://asv.org.au/gallery?dir=Stefan%20Buda
There is a tidal stream visible, extending out from the SMC, but the other long features have nothing to do with the Magellanic clouds. If I remember correctly, they are just galactic cirrus that is all over the place in that direction. |
Thanks for that Stefan - the long features definitely have the right dusty colour for galactic cirrus, and there's no way for me to resolve them into stars. I thought the morphology was too coincidental though, it really looks like the LMC is connected to the end of one.
Your image is spectacular- I think it may be the one I remembered seeing that inspired me to try this field! I'm quite unimpressed with the coma on that older Nikon lens though, your Pentax looks much sharper.
Cheers
Andrew.