Graced with the presence of the one and only and IIS moderator, Sir David Hough and blessed with only one good useable night out of three, (the other two were tantalising with patchy cloud but a bit too windy, even in a dome), this is the result from the mini star party up at Eagleview over the past weekend.
The seeing was pretty variable and only at acceptable Levels for Eagleview (FWHM= 1.9" - 2.3") but meah, better than nothing.
The SMC often gets overlooked for the grandeur and Mr Squiggle like spread on offer by its nearby big brother, the LMC but in fact the SMC is actually blessed with its own interesting and quite extensive menagerie of star forming, "bubbles" that can make a nice field to image.
I wanted to get a complete data set on an object in one night as a memento of the fun night with Houghy and Phil under the pristine Tinderry skies, so this is a hybrid true colour image, augmented with Halpha and OIII data, of only a modest total integration time (6.5hrs) but I hope you like it
NGC 267 region (reminds me of a pathology petri dish after a few days
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Pbase
AstroBin
Cheers
Mike