NGC 602

NGC 602
NGC 602

NGC 602 is a young star cluster 200,000 light years away near the Small Magellanic Cloud. It is surrounded by the Nebula N90.

Ionization is from a number of large young blue stars including Sk 183, an extremely hot O3 main sequence star.

There is what appears to be a faint Planetary Nebula which may be SMC-B Bru 2-165

Imaged in LRGB H alpha and OIII on my Planewave CDK 700 at Observatorio El Sauce, Chile.

Image acquisition and processing: Mike Selby

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