Something that cannot help but hit one at the eyepiece was to me the extreme difference in number of nebula within the LMC vs the SMC.
Perhaps a great amount of dust has been striped away from the SMC but the LMC is far fuller of dust and nebulous cloud matter or perhaps the LMC has had a more violent interaction with the milky way recently and as such is more 'shaken up' leading to more nebula.
Anyone seen a good discussion on this issue that is 'readable' by people with a fair background but not an astrophysics education?
Thanks,
Mark