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["Richard Harshaw" <rharshaw2@xxxxxxx>]

Paul, when I was active in the Astro Society of Kansas City, someone brought
a CD to a meeting one night of an animated fly-through of the Milky Way, but
it may have been a first cut-- it was sort of raw and unpolished.  Good
draft attempt though.  I don't know whether the people who created it (I
think it may have been a JPL or NASA group) ever refined it or not.  

Dick Harshaw


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Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Good Video about Orion's Nebula Trapeze

This video is available at a number of web sites, including the Hubble Space
Telescope site.  Lots of good supporting information and >20 MB movies
(Quicktime or MPEG) are at: http://vis.sdsc.edu/research/orion.html
I wish it could be run backwards, because that would start with the
telescope view we recognize.

Great video, nevertheless. We always forget the 3rd dimension when we look
at a lot of this stuff for real.  Some of the 3D naked-eye star maps are
also great in that regard. 

I wish someone would do a 3D movie or somesuch of the Milky Way so it would
be easier to visualize the spiral arms while looking up at the thing in the
night sky. It is a real struggle to piece it together from face-on map views
of the arms when you are looking at it edgewise and from the inside.

Paul Knauth 


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