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The Magellanic Catalogue of Stars is a catalogue of positions for 243,561 stars covering large areas around the Large and Small Magellanic Cloud (LMC and SMC). The catalogue was compiled by H.-J. Tucholke, K.S. de Boer and W.C. Seitter, who measured the positions on ESO Schmidt plates taken in 1988/91 and refer to the FK5 system via the PPM Star Catalogue.
K2 — K2 (Kepler extended mission) catalog; KELT — Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (search for extrasolar planets) Kemble — Father Lucian Kemble (asterisms which could be observed through binoculars, for example: Kemble 1, aka Kemble's Cascade in Camelopardalis) Kepler — Kepler catalog; Kes — Kesteven (supernova remnants).
The Caldwell catalogue is an astronomical catalogue of 109 star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies for observation by amateur astronomers.The list was compiled by Patrick Moore as a complement to the Messier catalogue.
ESO Science Archive has been providing access to data from astronomical catalogues since 1988. [1]An astronomical catalogue or catalog is a list or tabulation of astronomical objects, typically grouped together because they share a common type, morphology, origin, means of detection, or method of discovery.
LMC X-1 is the first X-ray source detected in the Large Magellanic Cloud. [4] It was discovered in 1969, using data from an instrument carried by a Sandia Terrier-Sandhawk sounding rocket, launched from the Johnston Atoll on October 29, 1968. [5] [6] LMC X-1 is a persistently luminous X-ray binary. [4]
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a dwarf galaxy and satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. [7] At a distance of around 50 kiloparsecs (163,000 light-years), [2] [8] [9] [10] the LMC is the second- or third-closest galaxy to the Milky Way, after the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal (c. 16 kiloparsecs (52,000 light-years) away) and the possible dwarf irregular galaxy called the Canis Major Overdensity.
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The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is around 163 kly distant and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is around 204 kly distant. Host galaxy Star system Median distance