LMC

LMC
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LMC

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), or Nubecula Major is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.=10.5px At a distance of around 50 kiloparsecs (≈160,000 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). It is roughly a hundredth as massive as the Milky Way and is 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.With a declination of about −70°, the LMC is visible as a faint "cloud" from the southern hemisphere of the Earth and from as far north as 20° N. It straddles the constellationsDorado and Mensa and has an apparent length of about 10° to the naked eye, 20 times the Moon's diameter, from dark sites away from light pollution.The Milky Way and the LMC are predicted to merge in approximately 2.4 billion years.
-Wikipedia-

Red
-> 16x5mn -> 1H20mn
-> 34x10mn -> 5H40mn
-> 7H

Green
-> 14x5mn -> 1H10mn
-> 34x10mn -> 5H40mn
-> 6H50mn

Blue
-> 12x5mn -> 1H
-> 34x10mn -> 5H40mn
-> 6H40mn

Luminance
-> 63x10mn -> 10H30mn

SuperL
-> 42x5mn -> 3H30mn
-> 165x10mn -> 27H30mn
-> 31H
SPECIFICATIONS
Telescope ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Telescope
Takahashi FSQ-106ED
Camera ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Camera
FLI PL16803
Location ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Location
Heaven's Mirro Observatory, Australia
Date of observation ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Date of observation
Many
Filters ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Filters
LRGB
Processing ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Processing
DSS/Pixinsight/Affinity
Credits ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Credits
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Comments

Great image! I really like the colors.

Thank you. I've spend a long time getting it the way I wanted, after getting a diffrent result everytime after 3x PhotometricColorCalibration. But with the needed mask the result was there! I am happy how the red came out, despite having no Ha data to add to the LRGB data.