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      LMC
      Wallpaper author:
      Rune Matthijssens

      17 Jan 2022

      LMC

      The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), or Nubecula Major is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.=10.5px At a distance of around 50 kiloparsecs (≈160,000 light-years), the LMC is the second- or third-closest galaxy to the Milky Way, after the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal (~16 kpc) and the possible dwarf irregular galaxy known as the Canis Major Overdensity. Based on readily visible stars and a mass of approximately 10 billion solar masses, the diameter of the LMC is about 14,000 light-years (4.3 kpc). It is roughly a hundredth as massive as 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).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 before its spiral arms were disrupted, likely by tidal interactions from the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and the Milky Way's gravity.With a declination of about −70°, the LMC is visible as a faint "cloud" from the southern hemisphere of the Earth and from as far north as 20° N. It straddles the constellationsDorado and Mensa and has an apparent length of about 10° to the naked eye, 20 times the Moon's diameter, from dark sites away from light pollution.The Milky Way and the LMC are predicted to merge in approximately 2.4 billion years.

      -Wikipedia-

      Red

      -> 16x5mn -> 1H20mn

      -> 34x10mn -> 5H40mn

      -> 7H

      Green

      -> 14x5mn -> 1H10mn

      -> 34x10mn -> 5H40mn

      -> 6H50mn

      Blue

      -> 12x5mn -> 1H

      -> 34x10mn -> 5H40mn

      -> 6H40mn

      Luminance

      -> 63x10mn -> 10H30mn

      SuperL

      -> 42x5mn -> 3H30mn

      -> 165x10mn -> 27H30mn

      -> 31H

      Dataset from which the image was processed

      Andromeda Galaxy

      25 credit

      Open
      Telescope Live
      SPA-1-CCD
      • Type of target
        ............................................................................................................................
        Galaxy
      • Camera
        ............................................................................................................................
        FLI PL16083
      • Target coordinates
        ............................................................................................................................
        RA 10.6847 Dec 41.26875
      • Hemisphere
        ............................................................................................................................
        Northern
      • Telescope location
        ............................................................................................................................
        Spain
      • Transient event
        ............................................................................................................................
        No
      • Observed on
        ............................................................................................................................
        29 Jul 2019 - 06 Dec 2021
      Filter
      Avg Exp (s)
      Total Exposure
      Subframes
      Luminance6958h30m44
      Red6848h10m43
      Green7408h50m43
      Blue7539h43
      Halpha1261h30m43

      LMC