The Large Magellanic Cloud
noirlab_noao-02332 June 30th, 2020
Credit: NOIRLab/AURA/NSF
A nearby irregular galaxy, the LMC is visible to the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere and is a satellite to our own Galaxy. The large gaseous nebula is 30 Doradus, the Tarantula Nebula. From the CTIO Curtis Schmidt telescope, 1975.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-02332/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noao-02332
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- LMC
- Credits
- NOIRLab/AURA/NSF
- Release Date
- 2020-06-30T21:33:48
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-02332/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- SMARTS–GSU 0.9-meter Telescope
- Instrument
- Cassegrain
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Optical
- Bandpass
- Ha
- Central Wavelength
- 565
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 81.68663784, -69.00560278
- Reference Dimension
- 2500.0, 2000.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1220.444692, 1209.111735
- Scale
- -0.00171, 0.00172
- Rotation
- -0.6622990471
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NSF's NOIRLab
- URL
- https://noirlab.edu
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- 950 North Cherry Ave.
- City
- Tucson
- State/Province
- AZ
- Postal Code
- 85719
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- NSF's NOIRLab
- Publisher ID
- noirlab
- Resource ID
- noao-02332
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-02332.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:34.035961
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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