The Flying Lizard in the SMC (Volantem Lacertae)

[Addos (Adam)]

A rarely imaged gem, the "Flying Lizard" is an enormous region of nebulosity and star clusters in one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud. Sitting quite a bit away from the core of the galaxy, this one is incredibly faint and slips by on most quick scans of survey data.

Still quite incredible to me that an average joe in a suburban backyard can capture images of nebula in another galaxy. What can I say, living in the 21st century is awesome.

Presented in a foraxx HOO blend with RGB stars.


Around 41hrs of narrowband, heavily biased towards Ha, and just over an hour of RGB.


Higher res here: https://www.astrobin.com/5d7t9a/

[Addos (Adam)]

Where it's situated relative to the core of the SMC

[Stephane]

Hi Adam, I just saw this on Astrobin. Awesome rendition. The image is well processed with a warmer tone. The stars look really nice with colour in their cores. Colour saturation and hues are spot on in my opinion. An overall excellent capture, well done!

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

As Monte Burns would say...excellent Smithers...eeeeexcellent

Mike

[RobF (Rob)]

Really interesting object and nicely processed - thanks for sharing.

[Dave882 (David)]

Great stuff Adam love this framing!

[Addos (Adam)]

Cheers guys, much appreciated

[InquisiNate (Nathaniel)]

Great image and fantastic to see the effort gone into this image!

[Andy01 (Andy)]

Very well-framed and great details.
I'd have liked to see more blue colour coming from the O3 though.
Well done.

[Addos (Adam)]

Thanks again guys! And thanks Andy for the feedback

[matlud (Mathew)]

Really great image of a faint and infrequently seen area! Very well done. CS Mat