Large Magelenic Cloud (LMC)

In the Fall of 2020 I decided to join as a member of Telescope Live a telescope-as-a-service offering that allows you to schedule time on their various locations across the world from Spain to Chile to Australia with a wide variety of different telescopes to get time on. Specifically, I’ve been interested in focusing on targets in the Souther Hemisphere that I can’t image from my location.

This is another one collected via Telescope Live’s Chile observatory from the new CHI-5 scope combing two narrowband sessions. The wide-field image is of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) our nearest galactic neighbor. The LMC is an irregular galaxy on the outskirts of the Milky Way as seen from the Southern Hemisphere. It’s roughly ~160,000 light-years from Earth and its “nodules” are ripe star-forming regions including the Tarantula Nebula which can be seen in the lower right of this image. 

Learn More:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Magellanic_Cloud