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Originally Posted by barx1963
We are actually sitting inside the disc of the Milky way about 1/3 of the way out from the centre. When you look towards Sagittarius, you are looking at the centre of our galaxy. the part of the milky way that curves from Crux through Canis major and Orion is looking towards the outer edge.
Other directions you are looking away from the Milky way, that is why you are most likely to spot galaxies in those directions, for example the Fornax cluster and on the other side the Virgo/ Coma clusters.
Hope this is clear enough!
Malcolm
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Yes thanks that makes it clearer, now I know that arc above actually shows the center and we or it is on an angle.
Always thought that was just a spiral arm this picture helped too.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:...hot-33a-07.jpg
And these also help
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:..._longitude.JPG
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:...od_(ELitU).png