[nswnra] Re: justl wondering...

  • From: "Corona Australis" <corona_australis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <nswnra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 17:15:30 +1100

Not looking good for tonight, next week will be perfectly clear with moonage 
you can bet

on that. I'll take anything I can get probably early morning sessions.

 

Great to hear you're getting that observing platform happening. 

 

Cheers,CS

Rob

 

From: nswnra-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:nswnra-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of judith stella
Sent: Sunday, 6 March 2011 15:07
To: nswnra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [nswnra] Re: justl wondering...

 

Thank you Rob and Glen for helping me with my Astronomy 101.  Those websites 
look great Glen. 

 

Hope you manage to get out with the scope tonight Rob - how's next weekend 
looking?

 

Judith

 

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From: nswnra-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:nswnra-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of G C
Sent: Sunday, 6 March 2011 4:33 AM
To: nswnra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [nswnra] Re: justl wondering...

 

On 5 March 2011 17:08, judith stella <judes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

okay you astro gurus - here's a question or two

 

If all the stars in the sky that we can see are in the milky way galaxy, which 
part of the galaxy are they in? our own spiral arm?
or can we see outside our own spiral arm? 

we can see outside our spiral arm, but we can't see the far side of our galaxy.

 

And if I was looking through a large telescope - say a 25" Obsession for 
example - would I then be able to see objects (stars, PNs,
clusters etc) that are beyond the milky way galaxy? Or does it take a Hubble to 
see that far? Clearly we can see other galaxies but
can we ever see inside those galaxies to the stars and other objects of those 
galaxies??

we can see OC, GC & neb in the LMC & SMC, which are nearby galaxies.   also neb 
in M33. 

These two web sites are good.

http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/

http://galaxymap.org/drupal/node/171

 

Glen 

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