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To: mikegi
>Hard to believe such things actually exist. Incredible beauty and scale

Hey, you can see it
with your naked eyes! If you
use binoculars,

it can look cool, too.
Not like the time-lapse stuff, but
some see it like this:





22 posted on 10/17/2005 8:25:17 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: theFIRMbss
Hope you don't mind if I flip that around..

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23 posted on 10/17/2005 8:32:39 AM PDT by kanawa
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To: theFIRMbss

You can see the Andromeda Galaxy with the naked eye alone if you have a dark enough sky. Star hop from Mirach to the star in the opposite 'leg' to Andromeda. It will look like a fuzzy patch. Not looking right at it may reveal it easier (averted vision can see dimmer objects than direct vision.) I have read that it is the farthest thing visible to the naked eye--some 2 million light years away.


57 posted on 10/17/2005 3:22:23 PM PDT by hanamizu
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