The Large Magellanic Cloud
This is an image of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). It is a satellite galaxy of the Milky way and is about 160,000 light years away in the constellation Dorado. It measures only about 14,000 light years in diameter and is about a hundredth the size of the Milky Way. It is the forth largest galaxy in the local group behind the Andromeda, Milky Way and Triangulum galaxies.
SPECIFICATIONS
Telescope
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Telescope
Takahashi FSQ-106ED
Camera
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Location
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Location
Yass, NSW 2582, Australia
Date of observation
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Date of observation
11 January 2022
Filters
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Filters
Astrodon LRGB 2GEN
Processing
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Processing
Pixinsight and Photoshop
Credits
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Credits
Telescope Live/Bernard Miller
