The Milky Way's dwarf companion , the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC; mag 0.9), in Dorado will be well placed in the evening sky in coming weeks. On 12 December it will reach its highest point in the sky at around midnight local time, and on subsequent evenings it will culminate four minutes earlier each day.
From São Paulo , it is visible all night. It will become visible at around 19:21 (GMT-03), 28° above your southern horizon, as dusk fades to darkness. It will be lost to dawn twilight at around 04:36, 29° above your southern horizon.
At a declination of 69°45'S, it is easiest to see from the southern hemisphere but cannot be seen from latitudes much north of 0°N.
At magnitude 0.9, LMC is visible to the naked eye, but best viewed through a pair of binoculars.
The position of LMC is as follows:
| Object | Right Ascension | Declination | Constellation | Magnitude | Angular Size |
| LMC | 05h23m30s | 69°45'S | Dorado | 0.9 | 645'00" |
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.
The sky on 12 Dec 2024
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All times shown in GMT-03.
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Source
The circumstances of this event were computed using the DE430 planetary ephemeris published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
This event was automatically generated by searching the ephemeris for planetary alignments which are of interest to amateur astronomers, and the text above was generated based on an estimate of your location.
Image credit
© Digitised Sky Survey (DSS); Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II)