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The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) - References & Acknowledgements

In creating this document I have had to rely on input from many sources. I have used numerous quotes from many publications and several people have helped with editing or supplying additional information.

People

These people deserve my thanks for assisting in producing this web page:

• Gary Kopff: Without whom this site would never have existed. He converted the original document into HTML and place it here for all to see. I can now see his point of sharing the information. Gary is a member of the ASNSWI

• Shane Supple: My main observing companion and the person who has helped me record the observation of the cloud that make up a bulk of this site. His assistance in the editing of the material was also a great help. Shane is a member of the ASNSWI

• Steve Lee: Thanks for the review of the original document to check for science blunders. Steve is an accomplished astronomer with a comet discovery under his belt.

• Gary Da Costa: A professional astronomer from the Anglo Australian Observatory who reviewed the science page making sure that I had included correct information on the galaxy.

• Raymond Haynes: a professional astronomer from the Australia Telescope and the CSIRO who has reviewed the site and offered several corrections.

• Max Gardner: A member of the ASNSWI who has supplied observations to the site made with his 18" scope

• Andrew J ames: Another member of the ASNSWI who has assisted in locating some notes and quotes that have helped produce this site.

• Timo Karhula: For providing observation of the clouds NGC objects. Also for Supplying corrected positions on many objects.

Publications

To produce this web site I have used information from:

• The complete idiots guide to creating an HTML 4 web page. By Paul McFedries.
  An excellent guide to creating your first web page. ISBN0-7897-1490-6. 1998 Que corporation

• In search of the Big Bang. By John Gribbon.
  ISBN 0-552-13146-6. 1987 Corgi books

• Galaxies. By Harlow Shapley.
  The Harvard books on Astronomy. 1943

• Burnhams Celestial Handbook. By Robert Burnham JNR.
  ISBN 0-486-23673-0. 1978 Dover books

• A revised and extended catalog of Magellanic system clusters, associations and emission nebulae Part 1 Small Magellanic cloud and bridge. By Eduardo L. Bica and Henrique R. Schmitt
  A complete list of objects in the SMC totaling 1188 objects.

• The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, vol101 p41-85, 1995 November.

• Star Clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud: Part 1 Identification of 69 clusters By Gerald E. Kron
  P.A.S.P. vol68 p125, 1956

• The cluster systems of the Small Magellanic Cloud. By E.M.Lindsay
  MNRAS vol118 p172

• Explorers of the Southern Sky. By Raymond Haynes, Roslyn Haynes, David Malin and Richard McGee
  ISBN 0-521-36575-9, Cambridge Press 1996.

• Magellanic Clouds By Bart Bok
  Mount Stromlo Observatory, ANU. 1966.

• The Magellanic clouds I. The distance and linear dimensions of the Small Cloud. By Harlow Shapley.
  Harvard College Observatory, Circular 255. 1924

• The Magellanic clouds and their bearing on the problem of stellar ages. By Harlow Shapley
  Harvard College Observatory.

• The clouds of Magellan a gateway to the sidereal universe. By Harlow Shapley.
  An excellent early look at the Magellanic clouds.

• American Scientist, vol. 44 Jan 1956.

• The Small Magellanic Cloud By Paul w. Hodge and Frances W. Wright.
  This is the Atlas of the SMC. This is a wonderful atlas giving the viewer an impression of the SMC as a galaxy.
  ISBN 0-295-95387-X University of Washington Press 1977

• The Catholic Encyclopedia Article on Ferdinand Magellan by Otto Hartig
  Enclylopedia Press 1913. Catholic Encyclopedia

• The Mariners Museum Article on Ferdinand Magellan
  Mariners Museum 1997. Mariner Museum.

• Uranometria 2000.0 vol2 By Tirion, Rappaport and Lovi.
  ISBN 0-943396-15-8, Willmann-Bell 1988

• The Small Magellanic Cloud atlas By Mati Morel.
  Mati Morel 1989

• Hartung's Astronomical objects for southern telescopes By David Malin and David Frew.
  ISBN 9-522-84553-3, Melbourne University press.

• Millennium star atlas By Roger W. Sinnott and Michael A. C. Perryman.
  ISBN 0-933346-84-0, Sky publishing corporation 1997.

• Herald Bobroff Astroatlas By D. Herald and P. Bobroff.
  ISBN 0-646-20356-8, HB2000 Publications.

• Deep sky observers website
  An excellent site on observational astronomy Produced by the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa.

Photographs

Photographs used in this site have been sourced from:

• Digital Sky Survey - Thanks to the DSS of the photos in the observations section.
• The NGC, IC project - Thanks to the NGC,IC project for the photos in the observations section.
• Steve Lee - For his photo of the SMC in the photos section.
• S. Kohle - For his photo of the SMC in the photos section.
• Tom Matheson - For his photo of the SMC in the home page.
• Gary Kopff - For producing the original SMC pages banner, using the gimp.