Talk:Magellanic Clouds

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So the Irregular Galaxy page says that the Megallanic clouds are actually a variant of barred spiral galaxies. So this is now an internal Wikipedia inconsistency.

But I'm not an expert in this field, so I'll refrain from making corrections.--MikeGinny 16:22, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mini-Magellanic Cloud

What about the Mini-Magellanic Cloud? --myselfalso 06:47, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] When they were first named after Magellan?

I could not find a definite date or the name of the person who was the first to name the objects after Magellan. So, for now I only listed two facts that demonstrate that this name was not used (at least in star atlases) until at least the late 18th century. If anyone can fill in some definite sourced information on this, please do so and then delete my two temporary references to Bayer and Flamsteed. Trapolator 21:36, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Extraterrestrial skies

Which would be appropriate, here or in that ETSkies article, to describe what it would look like on an Earth-like planet in the Magellanic Clouds assuming that the position within the cloud is not blocked by nebulae or other objects, and assuming the person's viewpoint and the planet's axial orientation permit viewing of the Milky Way? And what would it look like - how much of the sky would be occupied by the Milky Way? GBC 17:59, 6 December 2006 (UTC)