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To: dr_lew; fish hawk
Well, here's a scan from Timothy Ferris' GALAXIES, which was knock your socks off stuff in 1982. ( That smudge line is a mar in my copy of the book. ) You could say it's not substantially different from the APOD, but it is an inferior image.


14 posted on 06/25/2013 11:03:24 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew

Upside down

:)

A neat trick to pull on newcomers is to tell them you are going to show them Andromeda, but, actually show them the larger of the satellites, M32.

THEN show them the big guy. And it’s 2.5 Million LY away!


20 posted on 06/26/2013 6:54:00 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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