Our neighbouring galaxies

[ASIGN_Baz]

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a nearby irregular galaxy, and is a satellite of the Milky Way. At a distance of slightly less than 50 kiloparsecs (≈160,000 light-years), the LMC is the third closest galaxy to the Milky Way. It has a mass equivalent to approximately 10 billion times the mass of our Sun (1010 solar masses), making it roughly 1/100 as massive as the Milky Way, and a diameter of about 14,000 light-years.

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a dwarf galaxy with a diameter of about 7,000 light-years and contains several hundred million stars. It has a total mass of approximately 7 billion times the mass of our Sun.

At a distance of about 200,000 light-years, it is one of the Milky Way's nearest neighbors. It is also one of the most distant objects that can be seen with the naked eye.

Each image is a stack of around 8 subframes of five minutes each. Taken with a 5DMK II and 70-200 f/4L at 70mm. Star tracking was done with the camera mounted to my EQ6 pro telescope mount.

[Ant]

You are a lucky man indeed to live under skies like that!

It's always a pleasure to look at your images... Whats the Glob by the SMC?

Cracking images

Cheers

Ant

[oldfruit]

Great images, especially like the third one. Looks like you have some fantastic skies.

[Willarnold]

Wow! what an amazing set of images.

[ASIGN_Baz]

You are a lucky man indeed to live under skies like that!

It's always a pleasure to look at your images... Whats the Glob by the SMC?

Cracking images

Cheers

Ant

Thanks guys! Ant, that would be 47Tuc.

Baz.

[RogerTheDodger]

Wow, they are truly beautiful...

[Schorhr]

Great images!

The scenery shot of the milky way turned out great as well.

[Austin]

Amazing skies there, and great images!! Nice one!

[ASIGN_Baz]

Great images!

The scenery shot of the milky way turned out great as well.

Thanks dudes. The MW shot is a bit stretched and grainy, but I shot it on an old camera for the scene, not for the quality. It draws a nice picture I think.

[cloudbuster]

lovely images yet again Baz....particularly loving the 3rd one. another POW contender perhaps?

[ASIGN_Baz]

lovely images yet again Baz....particularly loving the 3rd one. another POW contender perhaps?

I dunno about that...it's very a grainy shot. I took it only for the purposes of story, rather than image quality. I used my old camera, which is very grainy when I stretch a single long-exposure.

Thanks a lot though mate! Onya!

Baz.

[Coco]

Truly outstanding Baz.. love the little story image, almost the cover to the book, very thought provoking

[JohnC64]

stunning images there - very jealous of your cloud free sky