Six-Degree Field Galaxy Survey

[glenc]

Galaxy quest illuminates dark corners of the universe
http://www.smh.com.au/national/galaxy-quest-illuminates-dark-corners-of-the-universe-20090401-9jrc.html
IT IS the most detailed map of its kind ever created, showing 110,000 "nearby" galaxies, within 2 billion light years of our world.
Every dot is "another Milky Way, with billions of stars," said Heath Jones, the leader of a team of Australian astronomers that spent 10 years undertaking the survey in an effort to unravel one of modern astronomy's biggest mysteries...
They began planning the Six-Degree Field Galaxy Survey in the late 1990s. From 2001 to 2006 they used the Schmidt telescope at Siding Spring, in northern NSW, to take images of the galaxies. Yesterday, with the data finally collated, they released their map...
See also http://www.aao.gov.au/local/www/6df/
and http://www.aao.gov.au/local/www/6df/Gallery/index.html

[Terry B]

Very impressive result.:thumbsup:

[Baddad]

:eyepop:

How little we know. Is hyper light speed a possibility? Its probably the only way for anyone to travel such distances to research these remote sites. What has happened to them recently? We only see the past, Millions of years ago.

Thanks for sharing Glenc. It puts a little perspective on where we lay in our little niche.:)

[Lismore Bloke]

I downloaded one of the "slices in declination" postscript files and made a pdf. Amazing to see the galaxies clumping together in strands, while some areas had none at all.

[Baddad]

Hey Lismore Bloke, :)
I don't know what you did. I am interested to see it.:newbie: It sounds good! :einstein:
Is it possible to PM the result to me? :)

[Lismore Bloke]

Hi Marty, the pdf was too big for the attachment size limit on this site, so
here it is as a reduced size jpeg. It will give you an idea. The files on the site Glen posted are postscript and need to be opened by Acrobat Distiller, or something similar. Cheers, Paul.

[Jen]

:eyepop: wow I wonder why are there those two big gaps that have nothing in it at all :screwy::screwy::screwy::screwy:

[Chrissyo]

If I recall correctly, I think that's along the plane of the Milky Way - it's blank because the survey didn't include that area of space. You'll have a hard time trying to detect galaxies while looking through our own. There are similar gaps in the 2dF maps.

[Jen]

Cool thanks Chris :thumbsup:

[Baddad]

Thanks Lismore Bloke:);):thumbsup: