The Large Magellanic Cloud
The Large Magellanic Cloud
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. At a distance of around 50 kiloparsecs ≈163,000 light-years the LMC is the second- or third-closest galaxy to the Milky Way, after the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal (~16 kpc) and the possible dwarf irregular galaxy known as the Canis Major Overdensity. Based on readily visible stars and a mass of approximately 10 billion solar masses, the diameter of the LMC is about 14,000 light-years (4.3 kpc), making it roughly one one-hundredth as massive as the Milky Way. This makes the LMC the fourth-largest galaxy in the Local Group, after the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Milky Way, and the Triangulum Galaxy (M33).
The LMC is classified as a Magellanic spiral. It contains a stellar bar that is geometrically off-center, suggesting that it was a barred dwarf spiral galaxy before its spiral arms were disrupted, likely by tidal interactions from the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and the Milky Way's gravity.
The LMC is classified as a Magellanic spiral. It contains a stellar bar that is geometrically off-center, suggesting that it was a barred dwarf spiral galaxy before its spiral arms were disrupted, likely by tidal interactions from the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and the Milky Way's gravity.
SPECIFICATIONS
Telescope
Takahashi FSQ-106ED
Camera
FLI PL16083
Location
Yass, NSW 2582, Australia
Date of observation
09 Nov 2020
Filters
Astrodon RGB 2GEN
Processing
SiriL, GIMP, Adobe PS, Starnet++, Adobe Lightroom CC
Credits
Hüseyin Avcu (@hsyns_astro) & Telescope Live
Comments
great work
Thanks!
Now this is cool... wide angle shots are rare on this platform:)
Reply: 2
Thank you! I tried a deep one but I liked the wider version better because you can see so many nebulosity covering The Large Magellanic Cloud :)
I agree with you, for example I am doing a project on the Tarantula nebula... coming soon! I tried wide angle and was shocked at the nebulosity, let's see if the deep one can surprise me just as much!:)