Below you can find a 50% resolution view of NGC 104.

• CCD : STL11000M ABG 1x1 binning
• Exposure time : 2x 30:30:30 min RGB (10 min individual exposures)
• Date and Time : 11. and 12.08.2004
• Instrument : Takahashi FSQ 106 f/5
• Focal length : 530 mm
• FWHM :
• Filters : Astronomik RGB filters
• Image processing : average combine, darks, flat
• Problems/comments : Further processing in Imageplus (RGB combine, DDP) and Photoshop. This is a mosaic of two images taken with the FSQ/STL11K combo. The final processing was done by R. Gendler. The large globular on the top of the image is 47 Tucanae (NGC 104), the second biggest globular after Omega Centauri. The smaller one at the bottom of the image is NGC 362. The SMC is about 200000 LJ distant from our Milky Way. Lots of H-alpha regions are discernible.