Galaxies
NGC 292 Small Magellanic Cloud in Tucana and Hydrus
NGC 292 is a dwarf irregular galaxy and a satellite of our Milky Way galaxy. It is around 7000 lightyears across and covers over 5 x 3 degrees, a Southern Hemisphere object only visible from latitudes below 15 deg North. It is approx 200,000 lightyears distant and consists of several hundred million stars.
There is a special type of blue star cluster within NGC 292, consisting of large blue-white stars with masses of 10-50x that of our Sun.
These are seen in this LRGB image, the result of one hour of data capture with an FLI Microline 11002 monochrome camera, through a Takahashi FSQ-106 refractor in New South Wales.
Date: 31/10/2020
Photographer: Graham Wilcock
