Wallpaper author:
Rob Leonard
03 Aug 2025
LMC: A lot to play with here
Had a lot of fun with this dataset. RGB is good, didn't need to reject very many; Ha added lots of detail to the emission regions. Processed in Pixinsight with RCAstro add-ons.
Dataset from which the image was processed
Large Magellanic Cloud
7 credit
- Type of target............................................................................................................................Galaxy
- Camera............................................................................................................................FLI ML16200
- Target coordinates............................................................................................................................RA 80.8942 Dec -69.7561
- Hemisphere............................................................................................................................Southern
- Telescope location............................................................................................................................Chile
- Transient event............................................................................................................................No
- Observed on............................................................................................................................30 Nov 2020 - 15 Oct 2021
Filter | Avg Exp (s) | Total Exposure | Subframes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Halpha | 214 | 1h15m | 21 |
| Red | 357 | 2h5m | 21 |
| Luminance | 343 | 2h | 21 |
| Green | 357 | 2h5m | 21 |
| Blue | 229 | 1h20m | 21 |