Map of the optical thickness τ (due to the Compton scattering) distribution over the magnetosphere of SMC X-1 calculated using the model of Mushtukov et al. (2024) as viewed from the NS center in Aitoff projection with the z-axis aligned along the magnetic dipole. The color represents the distribution of the optical thickness. The gray belt is the region where the accretion disk touches NS magnetosphere and where τ is infinite. The magnetosphere is covered only partially because of the assumed 15° inclination of magnetic dipole with respect to the disk axis. The flow is transparent at azimuthal angle around 0° in the northern hemisphere and at the angle 180° in the southern hemisphere, because there is no accretion along these field lines. The NS spin axis is assumed to be aligned with the disk rotation axis. We used the following parameters: L = 2 × 10³⁸ erg s⁻¹ and R_m = 5 × 10⁷ cm.