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Top left is NE. Image width is about 12 arc min
Image and text © 1999-2002, Australian Astronomical Observatory, Photograph by S. Lee, C. Tinney and D. Malin.
This image was intended to be an eye-catching image of a faint nebula (NGC 1714-15) and bright stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud, but as the three separate exposures continued a cloud of another kind intervened. The insulating vessel ('dewar') containing the CCD at liquid nitrogen temperatures sprung a slow leak and moisture from the air condensed on the cold window. The pattern of condensation changed quickly over part of the glass, and was different for each exposure, hence the vivid (but completely unreal) colours in the haze haloes around some of the brighter stars.
This image is only available as a digital file
Entry from NGC 2000.0 (R.W. Sinnott, Ed.) © Sky Publishing Corporation, 1988:
NGC 1714 Nb 04 52.1 -66 56 r Dor vB, S, E or biN, bM, sp of 2 NGC 1715 Nb 04 52.1 -66 55 r Dor vF, S, R, sbM, 2 st nr, nf of 2