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To: Gauguin who wrote (25565)	5/24/1999 6:33:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) of 71178

> And if that Galaxy in Orion we can see is M81 ~ is that right Lather? ~ < Sorry to disappoint, but the fuzzy spot in Orion is subgalactic in scale. It is a "diffuse nebula". The Great Orion Nebula. M42 if I remember right, and I'm grasping a bit. M81 is a big strapping galaxy either in Ursa Major or Canes Venatici - not sure which right now. Just barely a binocular object magnitude is 8ish. A more convincing smudge in a moderate telescope. To see structure in a galaxy requires either whopping aperture or long photo exposure times. Preferably both. Allan Sandage made up a gorgeous atlas of the nearer galaxies. I want a copy. I'd love to try my hand at astrophotography, but under suburban skies it doesn't work well. M32 is the Great Andromeda Galaxy, and it is the only galaxy that's an honest naked-eye object. Not counting our own and the two Magellanic Clouds of course. Sagittarius has two nice fuzzies associated with it. One is M8, the Lagoon Nebula, an object in the same class as the Orion nebula. The other is M7, a dazzling star cluster perched atop the Scorpion's stinger. Glorious in good binocs. Wherever we meet, and I hope it's reasonably rural, I'm bringing binocs and a star map.

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