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Small Magellanic Cloud, 90 minutes of exposure in LRGB with Takahashi FSQ-106ED 106/382 f 3/6 telescope, QHY 600M Pro camera, are 18 shots of which in L 5x300 seconds, in R 5x300 seconds, in G 2x300 seconds and in b 6x300 seconds, processing with Pixinsight and Photoshop. All data and shots were captured with Telescope Live. The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is an irregularly shaped dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. It contains a few hundred million stars.
Located at a distance of about 200,000 light-years, it is one of the closest companions of the Milky Way. It is also one of the most distant objects that can be seen with the naked eye from Earth, second only to the Andromeda Galaxy.
It forms a pair with the Large Magellanic Cloud, located 20 degrees to the east. Both are part of the Local Group of galaxies and, as their name indicates, are dedicated to Ferdinand Magellan, who observed them during his circumnavigation of the Earth.