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by Victor J. Chavez
Sun Feb 25, 2007 3:06 pm
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Just out of curiosity
Replies: 14
Views: 4928

Thanks for the links. Great photos. Not quite what I am looking for. Maybe that is because I don't know how to ask. I will take another run at it. The Andromeda galaxy covers twice the width of the moon in the sky. Until this was mentioned in a previous Picture of the Day, I thought it was a little ...
by Victor J. Chavez
Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:13 pm
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Just out of curiosity
Replies: 14
Views: 4928

Just out of curiosity

Has anyone ever assembled a collage of the sky showing features and there relative sizes? I was struck by a recent photo explanation indicating that Andromeda is twice the width of the moon in the sky. I think it would be stunning to create such a photograph so that people on the edge of the world o...