Large Magellanic Cloud
Large Magellanic Cloud
With monsoon season in full swing in AZ I went back to Telescope Live for data. This is the Large Magellanic Cloud, visible largely from the southern hemisphere. The LMC is a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way, sitting approximately 160,000 light years from it.
The stars we see in this image are mostly within the Milky Way. The LMC itself contains approximately 30 billion stars, but they show to us as a misty cloud. The LMC's mass is about 1/100 the Milky Way's. Its orbital period around the Milky Way is estimated at 1.5 billion years.
The stars we see in this image are mostly within the Milky Way. The LMC itself contains approximately 30 billion stars, but they show to us as a misty cloud. The LMC's mass is about 1/100 the Milky Way's. Its orbital period around the Milky Way is estimated at 1.5 billion years.
Telescope
Takahashi FSQ-106ED
Camera
FLI PL16083
Location
AUS-2
Date of observation
Jan 3, 2021; Feb 17, 2021; Feb 18, 2021; April 1; 2021
Filters
Astrodn LRGB
Processing
Pixinsight
Credits
Telescope Live