The average of 14 recent measurements of the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud ( LMC ) implies a true modulus of 18.50 \pm 0.02 mag , and demonstrates a trend in the past 2 years of convergence toward a standard value .
The distance indicators reviewed are the red clump , the tip of the red giant branch , Cepheid , RR Lyrae , and Mira variable stars , cluster main-sequence fitting , supernova 1987A , and eclipsing binaries .
The eclipsing binaries yield a consistent distance on average ; however , the internal scatter is twice as large as the average measurement error .
I discuss parameters of LMC structure that pertain to distance indicators , and speculate that warps discovered using the color of the clump are not really warps .