Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)
Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is an irregular galaxy spanning the constellations Dorado and Mensa. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 0.9 and its angular diameter is 645 x 550 arc-minutes. LMC lies at an estimated distance of 157,000 light years. The Equinox 2000 coordinates are 05h 23.6m, -69° 45´ which makes LMC a Southern Hemisphere object that is best seen during the winter.
The Small Magellanic Cloud and Large Magellanic Cloud are both dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky Way Galaxy. To the naked eye, they appear like small detached pieces of the Milky Way.
For more information on LMC, see the entry in Wikipedia.
Technical Details
- Object: Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)
- Date/Time: 2018 Apr 16 at 05:44 UTC
- Location: Atacama Lodge, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
- Mount: iOptron iEQ30 Pro GEM
- Lens: Nikkor 200mm f/4
- Camera: Nikon D750
- Field of View: 10.3° x 6.9° at 8.2 arc-sec/pixel
- Exposure: 4 x 180s, f/4, ISO 3200
- File Name: LMC18-01w.jpg
- Pre-Preprocessing (Starry Sky Stacker): Sub Exposures were Flat-Fielded, Registered and Stacked
- Processing (Adobe Lightroom): White Balance, Curves, Noise Reduction
- Original Image Size: 3977 × 5923 pixels (17.9 MP); 13.3" x 19.4" @ 300 dpi
- Rights: Copyright 2018 by Fred Espenak. All Rights Reserved. See: Image Licensing.