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Originally Posted by timokarhula
Brian Skiff informed me on December 19, 2009, that he had once seen an image of the LMC bridge taken with a "parking lot" (?) fish-eye lens at Las Campanas, Chile.
"Greetings Timo. The bridge from the LMC toward the galactic center that you describe is just what I saw on both of my trips to Las Campanas in Chile. It basically extends straight south from the LMC to the south celestial pole, then follows a great-circle approximately to the Norma starcloud (or, alpha TrA, as you say) --- it runs into the Milky Way, so you lose it much like the zodiacal band close to the Milky Way. I, too, have wondered why it is not mentioned anywhere that I know of. I remember once seeing an image taken at CTIO using what they called the "parking lot camera", a wide-field lens + CCD. This image showed the feature, but I do not know where to find that image again.
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Hi all!
Guess my surprise when I recently also saw a glimpse of the LMC "light bridge" on TV! It was in a nature program from the Atacama desert. On a time-elapse sequence showing the Chilean observatories in the foreground, the Magellanic Clouds were revolving around the south celestial pole (SCP). From the LMC, I could faintly see the "light bridge" going towards the Milky Way in Triangulum Australe / Norma. This was apparently shot with a b/w CCD-camera and a very wide field or a fish-eye lens. I think this is the best equipment to catch the elusive "light bridge". Could anyone Down-Under with very dark skies try to image the LMC / SCP with a CCD + fish-eye lens? You who succeed will be (one of) the first to prove the existence of the LMC bridge!
Clear Skies,
Timo Karhula