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Gigagalaxy Zoom: Galactic Center (APOD 2009 September 25)
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 10:02 am
by neufer
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. 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.
Re: Gigagalaxy Zoom (APOD 2009 September 25)
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 1:21 pm
by bystander
Step back and get an edge on view of the Milky Way
http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/B.html
Re: Gigagalaxy Zoom (APOD 2009 September 25)
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:03 pm
by neufer
bystander wrote:Step back and get an edge on view of the Milky Way
Re: Gigagalaxy Zoom (APOD 2009 September 25)
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 10:17 pm
by 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!!
Re: Gigagalaxy Zoom (APOD 2009 September 25)
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 11:19 am
by DavidLeodis
canuck100 wrote: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!!
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.
