The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way at a distance of about 160.000 lightyears. The LMC is the second closest galaxy to the Milky Way after the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal. With a declination of about -70 degree, the LMC is visible as a faint "cloud" from the southern hemisphere. It straddles the constellation Dorado and Mensa and has an apparent length of about 10 degree to the naked eye (20 times the moon diameter.
