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The south part of the LMC Large Magellan Cloud. About 160 thousand light years away. A heavy nebulous area with lots of star-formation. Processed in PixInsight. 5 Hours of exposure from El Sause in Chile.
First picture taken on the SkyWatcher Star Tracker. Canon 6D 200mm prime lens at f3.5 30x30 secs with Dark Frames. ISO 3200 no cropping.
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a satellite dwarf galaxy of the Milky Way that is among the closest galaxies to Earth. At about 163,000 light-years from Earth, the dwarf galaxy looks like a faint cloud in Southern Hemisphere skies. It lies on the border of the constellations Dorado and Mensa.
From the southern skies, on a dark night, two familiar whitish spots can be seen with the naked eye by observers of the night sky. These are two galaxies known as the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud. Under the light of a modest telescope, these galaxies explode into stars, clusters, and nebulas that leave one breathless.
In this modest image, the general structure of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) can be observed. This galaxy is located 160,000 light-years away and is the third closest galaxy to the Milky Way (after the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy and the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy). LMC contains around 30 billion stars, a magnificent star-forming region known as the Tarantula Nebula, around 700 open clusters, 60 globular clusters, and approximately 400 planetary nebulae.
It owes its name to the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan who made Europe aware of the existence of these beautiful galaxies.
This photograph is the result of 34 minutes of integration, for which I used my Nikon D5600 camera, Nikon 75-150 lens at 100 mm, Marumi Exus UV l390 filter, on a Sky-Watcher EQ3 equatorial mount, with tracking but without guiding. Each photograph is 20 seconds of exposure and Iso 1600. For calibration shots, I used 25 darks, 40 biases, and 25 flats.
January 8, 2024, 10:36 PM (average local time). Zona rural, Concordia, Entre RÃos, Argentina.
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Desde los cielos australes, en una noche oscura, se pueden observar a simple vista dos manchas blanquecinas muy familiares para los observadores del cielo nocturno. Se trata de dos galaxias conocidas como Gran Nube de Magallanes y Pequeña Nube de Magallanes. A la luz de un modesto telescopio, estas galaxias estallan en estrellas, cúmulos y nebulosas que dejan sin aliento al observador.
En esta modesta imagen, se observa la estructura general de la Gran Nube de Magallanes (LMC). Esta galaxia se encuentra a 160000 años luz y es la tercera galaxia más cercana a la Via Láctea (después de la Galaxia Enana del Can Mayor y la Galaxia Enana ElÃptica de Sagitario). LMC contiene unas 30000 millones de estrellas, una magnÃfica región de formación estelar conocida como Nebulosa de la Tarántula, alrededor de 700 cúmulos abiertos, 60 cúmulos globulares y aproximadamente 400 nebulosas planetarias.
Debe su nombre al navegante portugués Fernando de Magallanes quien puso en conocimiento de Europa la existencia de estas bellÃsimas galaxias.
Esta fotografÃa es el resultado de 34 minutos de integración, para lo cual utilicé mi cámara Nikon D5600, lente Nikon 75-150 en 100 mm, filtro Marumi Exus UV l390, sobre una montura ecuatorial Sky-Watcher EQ3, con seguimiento pero sin guiado. Cada fotografÃa es de 20 segundos de exposición e Iso 1600. Para las tomas de calibración utilicé 25 darks, 40 bÃas y 25 flats.
08 de enero de 2024, 22:36 (hora local promedio). Zona rural, Concordia, Entre RÃos, Argentina.
The Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way, is a true wonder of the cosmos. From its location in the southern sky, the Large Magellanic Cloud offers a breathtaking view of a celestial spectacle - two big, bright smudges of light hanging over the southern horizon like two stubborn clouds refusing to dissipate.
With the help of a telescope and camera, its glowing gas clouds and vibrant colours reveal a dazzling display of cosmic artistry. The colourful regions peppered across the galaxy are a massive collection of supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and star clusters. Intense radiations from those active targets energise the nearby hydrogen gases, causing them to glow like neons. Perhaps the most striking target is the Tarantula Nebula (the largest nebula seen in the pictures), a sprawling gas cloud resembling a giant spider dancing in the night sky.
(The data was acquired from Telescope Live, which I processed using Pixinsight and Photoshop).
LMC from January 2016 #EveryNewMoon
This LMC was shot from dark skies, in the start on our #EveryNewMoon 2016 adventure in Sutherland, South Africa. The primary target for the trip was Barnard’s Loop, and this was a bonus as all the imaging conditions turned out perfect!
For more information:
ABC TV has released a Southern Night Sky Tour video that includes my photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud Galaxy at 9m52s. I am very honoured to be included with the works of some great astrophotographers, NASA and ESO.
Narrowband image of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Remote image with data acquired from the Telescope Live CHI-5 telescope. Rio Hurtado Valley, Chile.
Nikon 200mm f/2 lens
FLI ML-16200 CCD camera
Ha: 10m
OIII: 10m
SII: 10m
Hubble palette.
Processed with Maxim DL, PixInsight and Photoshop.
Large Magellanic Cloud
Image taken using Telescope Live robotic AUS-2 telescope at Heaven's Mirror Observatory in Australia.
Telescope: Takahashi FSQ-106ED 106mm refractor.
Camera: FLI PL16803 CCD camera 4096 x 4096 pixels.
Equatorial Mount: Paramount MX
Filters: Astrodon LRGB
Exposures:
Lum 4 x 450 sec
Red 3 x 450 sec
Green 3 x 450 sec
Blue 3 x 450 sec
Processed with PixInsight and Photoshop CC 2020.
The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of my favourite night sky object viewable from the Southern Hemisphere. At a distance of 163,000 light years from earth LMC is considered an irregular type galaxy and the third closest galaxy to our own Milky Way.
For the tech specs of this image, it was shot on a Canon 6D with a Canon 90mm tilt-shift lens, which is such a super sharp lens! The exposure was 10 second shutter at f/2.8 ISO 6400. I had to shoot two single exposure frames to get me and the Large Magellanic Cloud in the one shot, and I stitched them together in Auto Pano Giga. The air glow was also quite amazing that night!
ESO’s VISTA telescope reveals a remarkable image of the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of our nearest galactic neighbours. VISTA has been surveying this galaxy and its sibling the Small Magellanic Cloud, as well as their surroundings, in unprecedented detail. This survey allows astronomers to observe a large number of stars, opening up new opportunities to study stellar evolution, galactic dynamics, and variable stars.
More information: www.eso.org/public/images/eso1914a/
Credit:
ESO/VMC Survey
This is a "work in progress..." image, first part of a long term project. The goal is to build an ultra hi-def image of the LMC, with channels H-alpha, OIII and LRGB. The final image will have 5x6 tiles in all five channels. This is just the first 6 tiles (2x3) in H-alpha (about 24 hours of data). It will take me a couple of years work, for sure, but will post intermediate resutls as well. Equipment: AP167FLZ apo refractor, Apogee U16M, Astrodon Gen2 filters (3nm), and AP1100 gto mount. It is available in native resolution via the "view all sizes" flikr option.
The Milky Way, LMC and SMC and terrestrial clouds taken on the Moralana Scenic Drive. Tamron lens, processed with daylight white balance for star colours in Lightroom.
Large Magellanic Cloud in Tri-color narrowband.
The Large Magellanic Cloud imaged remotely from Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia. FSQ F/5, FLI Proline 16803, Paramount ME. 15 x 1800s each channel. Wavelength ordered color assignment. HA=green, OIII=blue, Sii=red.