| Description | The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a dwarf galaxy and 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 (c. 16 kiloparsecs (52,000 light-years) away) and the possible dwarf irregular galaxy called the Canis Major Overdensity. Based on the D25 isophote at the B-band (445 nm wavelength of light), the Large Magellanic Cloud is about 9.86 kiloparsecs (32,200 light-years) across. It is roughly one-hundredth the mass of 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). |
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| Data/Processing Attribution | Data was purchased from Telescope Live and I did its processing only. |
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| Distances/Size | Distance to the object- 160,000 light years; angular size in the sky is about 10.75 X 9.17 degrees; size of the galaxy is about 32,000 light years in diameter |
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| Equipment | Mount-Paramount MX+; Scope- Takahashi FSQ-106ED, 106 mm aperture, 382mm focal length; Camera- QHY600 M Pro, 1.46 arcsec/pixel. |
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| Observatory | Telescope Live, Heaven’s Mirror Observatory, Australia. |
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| Exposure | LRGB filters, total exposure- 20 hours 10 min. |
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