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To: RadioAstronomer

I might be wrong but I have read that the great galaxy in Andromeda can be visible to the naked eye under ideal conditions. Ditto for another in Triangulum although it is much fainter.


111 posted on 12/25/2004 9:43:11 AM PST by xp38
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To: xp38
Yes, basically it appears as a little fuzzy oval. All you really see, for the most part, is the hub.
112 posted on 12/25/2004 9:56:02 AM PST by inquest (Now is the time to remove the leftist influence from the GOP. "Unity" can wait.)
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Do you know of a simple web site that shows us the different galaxies in their relationship to ours?


116 posted on 12/25/2004 10:35:15 AM PST by winodog (We need to water the liberty tree)
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To: xp38
I might be wrong but I have read that the great galaxy in Andromeda can be visible to the naked eye under ideal conditions. Ditto for another in Triangulum although it is much fainter.

Indeed. But the question was for stars. Any individual star is ver close on a cosmic scale. Heck, the Andromeda galaxy is close by cosmic standards.

141 posted on 12/25/2004 10:41:56 PM PST by RadioAstronomer
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Yes, you can see M31 with the naked eye. I have seen it myself this way when I lived in the desert. From my backyard in the big city, I can find it with binoculars.

A few people have claimed to observe galaxy M33 (Triangulum) unaided. It's close enough to us that its angle of size in the sky is greater than that of the moon, but it's surface brightness is very low. I have never been able to find M33 with binoculars.

About 4 people say they have observed galaxy M81 unaided, which is 12 million light years distant. If this is true, the conditions would have to be extraordinary, and there are probably only a handful of people on Earth who's vision is that sharp.

143 posted on 12/25/2004 11:12:39 PM PST by Spandau
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To: xp38
the great galaxy in Andromeda can be visible to the naked eye under ideal conditions

I first saw M31 when I was a teen. I have been watching it ever since, mostly in amazement that it is still visible even when stars dimmer than mag 4 are lost in the light pollution.

147 posted on 12/26/2004 12:02:34 PM PST by RightWhale (Destroy the dark; restore the light)
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