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Originally Posted by mental4astro
The quote of NGC 121, and the image of it, made me do a little search for it: looks like it is actually a small globular cluster that orbits the SMC. I found an article on it, which is best left to your own reading as I'm still trying to get my head around. Facinating extra galactic GC! The article has an image to it taken by the Hubble scope.
http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/508/2/570/fulltext
I found a colour pic of 121 of Hubble's too:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...le_WikiSky.jpg
Great picture Rob. Might have a go at spotting this little GC, 121. Rather small, but what the heck! Only another GC to add to the Obs. Challenge! |
Cool - thanks for sussing this one out Alexander!
Really enjoyed the education - didn't occur to me it could be another extremely distant GC.