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Anyone that has seen the Magellanic Clouds from a dark site may be forgiven for thinking they are simply separate pieces of the Milky Way. This is, however, far from the case. They are in fact irregular dwarf galaxies that are orbiting the Milky Way. Due to their relatively close proximity to us (in galactic terms) they are packed with astronomical objects easily visible in small telescopes and available for amateur astroimaging, many of which take on a character quite different from objects available for imaging in the Milky Way itself.
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Chadwick, S., Cooper, I. (2012). The Clouds of Magellan. In: Imaging the Southern Sky. Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4750-4_8
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