Starship Asterisk*

[quote="canuck100"]Looking at the original picture at http://astrosurf.com/sguisard/Pagim/GC.html does anyone know what % of the sky this picture represents and approximately how many stars and or galaxies are in the picture?
Amazing picture!![/quote]

The annotated APOD brought up through the "Sagittarius to Scorpius" link in the explanation may be of help to you in the percentage of the sky part of your query.

Looking at the original picture at http://astrosurf.com/sguisard/Pagim/GC.html does anyone know what % of the sky this picture represents and approximately how many stars and or galaxies are in the picture?
Amazing picture!!

[quote="bystander"]Step back and get an edge on view of the Milky Way[/quote]
[list][b][url=http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/B.html](gi)GAGALA(x)Y[/url]
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gaga_on_Fame_Ball1-edit.jpg]LA(d)Y GAGA[/url][/b][/list]

Step back and get an edge on view of the Milky Way
http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/B.html

.          Hamlet > Act II, scene II

HAMLET: O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count
.   myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I
.   have bad dreams.

[code]. Hamlet > Act II, scene II

HAMLET: O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count
. myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I
. have bad dreams.[/code]
[b] http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090925.html[/b]