The Magellanic Clouds are visble with the naked eye here at La Silla. They look like two pieces of the Milky Way broke off and floated across the sky. Last night I zoomed in on the Large Magellanic Cloud with my standard 18-55 mm lens set to 55 mm, and after focusing I took 12 photos with an exposure time of 15 seconds, an ISO of 6400 and an f-number of f/5.6.
I then used Nebulosity to stack the photos. I had not used that program before, but I quickly became very fond of it. I did the final tweaking of curves and colors in Photoshop and I just love the result. This sky is amazing!
