Southern Hemisphere/Remote Images
Remote Images taken by renting usage time on telescopes located in the southern hemisphere. Remote Imaging gives me the ability to image items that would never be seen in my regular northern hemisphere skies.
Read More
Small Magellanic Cloud
The Small Magellanic Cloud is actually a dwarf galaxy near the Milky Way. It is classified as a dwarf irregular galaxy. It has a diameter of about 7,000 light-years and contains several hundred million stars and has a total mass of approximately 7 billion times the mass of the Sun. The SMC contains a central bar structure and it is speculated that it was once a barred spiral galaxy that was disrupted by the Milky Way to become somewhat irregular.
Remotely imaged on a 106mm refractor at Siding Spring Observatory NSW Australia.
