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Old 10-09-2011, 12:56 PM
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The Large Magellanic Cloud distorted barred spiral

Another lens widefield image.

This one is 3 hours 10 minutes at F2.8 at my dark site.

I wanted to show the fact that the LMC is a distorted barred spiral and the large sweeping arm at the bottom swings around. You can see some halo above it as well.

LMC widefield, Pentax 67 165mm 2.8, Proline 16803:

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/137923433 regular

http://upload.pbase.com/image/137923433 large

Inverted image shows even more the sweeping arm (colour core for orientation),

The Milky Way has distorted this arm. With a bit of imagination some of that arm
appears to be sweeping back towards the Milky Way or towards the viewer that is.

http://upload.pbase.com/image/137936031


Greg.

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