The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. At a distance of about 50 kiloparsecs. 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.
The picture was taken in the remote observatory of ChileScope with telelens nikon 200 f2 and a camera fli 16200.
The set was HaLRGB and was 40min of Ha and 15 min in LRGB.
Copyright: Javier Flores
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