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This image shows a region that is very rarely visited by amateur astrophotographers. Actually, I have only found wide field images that, also, contained this region, but no higher resolution images. The Small Magellanic Cloud, SMC, is a small galaxy (satellite of the Milky Way) that has numerous HII (red) regions that show a high rate of star formation. In the annotated version below, several of them have been identified. Additional to these, a Planetary Nebula ([JD2002] 13) and several open clusters are also present.
This image was taken with narrowband filters and mapped to natural colors. The short RGB exposures were taken and processed in a way as to preserve the natural colors of the surrounding stars.
Additional Information
Object
Name(s): N36, N37,…
Type: Emission Nebulae
RA: 00h 50m 53.4s
Dec: -72º 47’ 56.5”
Constellation: Tucana
Size (arcmin): 7×5 arcmin
Magnitude: NA
Distance: 200,000 ly
Image
Date: 2019-06-19 to 2019-12-26
Location: iTelescope.net, SSO near Coonabarabran, NSW Australia
Size (arcmin): 34×30 arcmin
Telescope: 20” f/6.8 Reflector
Camera: SBIG STX16803 (4096x4096pix)
Guiding: Astrodon MonsterMOAG off-axis guider
Total exposure: 23 hours (Ha: 12.5h; OIII: 7.5h; RGB: 3h)
Processing: CCDStack, Photoshop CC 2020