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      Wallpaper author:
      Simon Bakewell

      20 Aug 2023

      Large Magellanic Cloud

      The Large Magellanic Cloud is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. At a distance of around 50 kiloparsecs, the LMC is the second- or third-closest galaxy to the Milky Way, after the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal and the possible dwarf irregular galaxy called the Canis Major Overdensity. From Wikipedia

      Dataset from which the image was processed

      Large Magellanic Cloud

      31 credit

      Open
      Telescope Live
      AUS-2-CCD
      • Type of target
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        Galaxy
      • Camera
        ............................................................................................................................
        FLI PL16803
      • Target coordinates
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        RA 80.8942 Dec -69.7561
      • Hemisphere
        ............................................................................................................................
        Southern
      • Telescope location
        ............................................................................................................................
        Australia
      • Transient event
        ............................................................................................................................
        No
      • Observed on
        ............................................................................................................................
        27 Feb 2020 - 26 Jan 2022
      Filter
      Avg Exp (s)
      Total Exposure
      Subframes
      Luminance85117h30m74
      Red60812h30m74
      Green62412h50m74
      Blue62512h40m73
      Halpha1442h55m73

      Large Magellanic Cloud