Extremely thankful to my collaborator and mentor, Mike Selby for this amazing opportunity to process this incredible data from a location I have no direct access to! The Large Magellanic Cloud is way too deep south for my latitude! This image really helped me understand this region with all of the different regions coming together in this huge field!
Please look at this image in full resolution mode and explore at the enormous field of view in detail!
The Large Magellanic Cloud is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way located around 163,000 light years away., it is massive in the field of view covering an area of 462 x 516 arc minutes. In order to capture the entire galaxy, this image is made up of 12 separate image panels forming a mosaic of the galaxy. It consists of a total of nearly 150 hours of exposure time and in full resolution is 300 megapixels with a file size of around 1.3 gb.
Imaged in LRGB and H alpha on Mike Selby’s Planewave DR 350 at Observatorio El Sauce, Chile.
Data and preprocessing by Mike Selby
Processed by me using Pixinsight and Photoshop.