Small Magellanic Cloud
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Photograph
Small Magellanic Cloud
ca. 1971
Gelatin silver print
Image: 45 x 55.1 cm
Overall: 45 x 55.1 x 1.4 cm
Gift of Walter J. Clark
Inscriptions verso (applied label, typed): (3) SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD/
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), at a distance of about 60 kpc/ is the second-closest galaxy to the Milky Way System. It is/ about 4 times less massive than the Large Cloud, but still/ contains a large number of globurlar clusters on this phoot, NHC 362/ (top left) and 47 Tucanae (right edge) belong to the Galaxy/ and are among the brghtest in the sky. The brightest star/ (in upper right corner) in ) Tucanae, visual magnitude 6m./
R.A. = 0h50mn ; Decl. = -72º50' (1950) ; 60 mn exposure on/ IIa-0 with GG 385 filter. ESO 1-meter Schmidt Telescope./
Copyright European Southern Observatory
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), at a distance of about 60 kpc/ is the second-closest galaxy to the Milky Way System. It is/ about 4 times less massive than the Large Cloud, but still/ contains a large number of globurlar clusters on this phoot, NHC 362/ (top left) and 47 Tucanae (right edge) belong to the Galaxy/ and are among the brghtest in the sky. The brightest star/ (in upper right corner) in ) Tucanae, visual magnitude 6m./
R.A. = 0h50mn ; Decl. = -72º50' (1950) ; 60 mn exposure on/ IIa-0 with GG 385 filter. ESO 1-meter Schmidt Telescope./
Copyright European Southern Observatory
