Image of the SMC obtained from the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The inset provides a close-up view of the region near 47 Tucanae where the observations for this study were carried out. The NIRCam field of view analyzed in this work is outlined in green, and the footprints of the observations used by Kalirai et al. (2013) are shown in red. The white cross marks the position of the SMC center (Piatti 2021). North is up, and east is to the left.