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I have a Meade LXD-75 SN10 and a Canon EOS Rebel T3. Can anyone suggest a T-adapter for use?

SomeSleeplessGuy wrote:Is my maths wrong, or should it take about 1500 years to fly around the supergiant, not 1100?
d=2.8 bnkm
circumference = pi(d) = 8.8bnkm
vel = 900km/h
therefore flight duration = 9.77 million hours = 1535 years.

Or maybe they're not going around the equator...

You math'd wrong. 1535 = 265 days.

For those of you that have commented on the size of the text, if you hold down CTRL on your keyboard and scroll with your mouse, you should be able to adjust the size of the font (on most websites). Otherwise you can adjust them in the bottom right hand of the screen with the "zoom level" ...

Is this NGC 981 or 918???

How the heck did I miss those posts above? I must not have seen the images while at work. Damned websense.

Anyone notice this (I had to look at the full size picture to see it.
There are seven dots on the image that look a little too symmetrical.
Is this an illusion/aberration/camera trick?
I've circled the region here:
http://www.geocities.com/shadow1122/ngc ... fall74.jpg

I was wondering, if I were on a planet in one of the "outer loops" of this image, what the night sky would look like? If I were this close to a galaxy, how big would it look? Could I distinguish its structure? Would it get as dark (at night) as it does here on Earth?