# LMC snapped by the ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope

- By: ESO
- Date: 2010-02-16
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: LMC snapped by the ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LMC_snapped_by_the_ESO_1-metre_Schmidt_telescope.jpg)
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Astronomers used the ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope to capture this image of the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) galaxy in 1986.