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PostSubject: Spotting deep cosmic bodies   Spotting deep cosmic bodies EmptyTue Aug 23, 2011 7:19 am
With the naked eye, on the southside of the constellation of Cassiopeia, you will see a faint point of light, through an amateur telescope it will look like a oval smudge of light, this is Andromeda, (or messier 31), our nearest galaxy, with messier33 or Triangulum galaxy (in distance terms) being not far behind, a WHOLE galaxy visible to us.
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PostSubject: Re: Spotting deep cosmic bodies   Spotting deep cosmic bodies EmptyThu Aug 25, 2011 6:44 am
wow!! i never thought that was posssible!
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PostSubject: Re: Spotting deep cosmic bodies   Spotting deep cosmic bodies EmptyThu Aug 25, 2011 7:18 am
Indeed its incredible, there is soo much to look at, did you know alot of stars aren't just one star, but two or three, it just looks like one Smile
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PostSubject: Re: Spotting deep cosmic bodies   Spotting deep cosmic bodies EmptyThu Aug 25, 2011 7:30 am
Betelgeuce is about 640 light-years away in the constellation of Orion, but is soo big (20 solar masses) we can detect surface detail!!!
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PostSubject: Re: Spotting deep cosmic bodies   Spotting deep cosmic bodies EmptyThu Aug 25, 2011 9:26 am
wow ! well ino know Smile i no that stars dont shine in space xo
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PostSubject: Re: Spotting deep cosmic bodies   Spotting deep cosmic bodies EmptyThu Aug 25, 2011 9:33 am
They do shine in space, they dont twinkle though :-)
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PostSubject: Re: Spotting deep cosmic bodies   Spotting deep cosmic bodies EmptyThu Aug 25, 2011 9:47 am
i meant twinklee omg i looked like a twit then lol pale
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