RA 80.8938° · Dec -69.7561° · openngc
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26 more points to reach Mythic.
Large Magellanic Cloud is an anomaly galaxy. It sits in the constellation Dor and shines at apparent magnitude 0.29.
A barred spiral — a straight bar of stars driving right through the nucleus, feeding gas inwards. Our own Milky Way is one of these.
Look for Large Magellanic Cloud in the constellation Dor. At apparent magnitude 0.29, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, Large Magellanic Cloud is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
Large Magellanic Cloud scores 94 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the anomaly tier. Another 26 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 7 science badges — Galaxy, Bright deep-sky object, Has a proper name, Barred spiral galaxy, Bigger on the sky than the full Moon, Bright enough for the unaided eye and A Magellanic Cloud (our satellite galaxy) — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.