Observations of The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC)

Kron 38

Andrew Murrell

Kron 38 is a located 30 arc minutes east of Lindsay 47.

The main bar of the SMC is almost 1 degree to the west, so the sky background here is low, which for this cluster is good. The cluster is 3½ arc minutes in diameter. It has no central condensation and seem to be primarily made up from 15-16th magnitude stars. The are several 12th magnitude stars scattered across the face of the cluster. The surface brightness of the cluster is fairly homogenous with a very slight brightening to the north. The cluster has an ill-defined edge and is not separated very well from the background sky. The very low surface brightness object for a 12" telescope from a good dark sky. No nebula is associated with the object when it was checked with the OIII filter, in fact the cluster was not visible at all.