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Large megallanic cloud

The Large megallanic cloud. Visible in the southern hemisphere very close to the celestial south pole. This cloud is in fact a is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. You need to be in a fairly dark area well away from city lights to see this nebula, even then it will appear as a barely visible faint smudge. It was so clear that night and the brilliance of the stars were absolutely out of this world!

 

I took 9 shots at ~61 secs each, totaling 559 secs of exposure using my home built star tracker. Unfortunately my focus was ever so slightly off. So I will have to go back to redo them some time. I stacked in Sequator, denoised in DxO and refined in Affinity Photo.

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Uploaded on March 14, 2021
Taken on March 12, 2021