Date: September 11, 2010
Location: Parque Nacional La Campana, Chile
Constellation: Dorado/Mensa
Equipment: Piggybacked on Meade LXD55 mount
Camera: Canon EOS 20Da modified
Exposure: 1 light frame of 120 seconds, ISO 1600
Processing: Color balanced, and cropped using Photoshop.

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a nearby irregular galaxy, and is a satellite of the Milky Way, easily visible as a faint "cloud" in the night sky of the southern hemisphere.