#Astrodon , I have a question. I've been taking photos of the LMC - not the main bit where all the action is, but the outskirts.

Do you see the thing that looks somewhat like a planetary nebula, towards the upper right and forming a triangle with NGC 2114 and NGC 2117, looking like a circle with a cluster in it?
I put it into astrometry.net but it hasn't annotated it. I've provided the annotated version too.

What is it, does anyone know? It's what led me to target the area in the first place and it looks interesting, I'd like to know more about it.

Otherwise I'm just going to call it Leece's Lucent Pearl 😉

#astronomy #BackYardAstronomy #SouthernHemisphereAstronomy #DrivewayAstrophotography #LargeMagellanicCloud

@leece it’s LHA 120-N 70 (Henize 70)! It’s an HII region.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henize_70

https://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=LHA+120-n+70&submit=SIMBAD+search

If you run into this again, you can find the object in Aladin, click on the reticle (What is this?), and then click on the object!
https://aladin.cds.unistra.fr/AladinLite/

Henize 70 - Wikipedia

@millijanskys Ohhh thank you very much, that's really cool, I'm very glad that you could help me! Much obliged!