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Originally Posted by TrevorW
Excellent as usual, very nice colouring  |
Cheers Trevor, a couple of people have said it looks "pretty"
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Originally Posted by alpal
Nice picture Mike,
good detail and depth.
You say
"40° to our line of sight from the Earth."
I checked in Stellarium and NGC 2997 was almost at the zenith
when you took your pictures.
The highest was at 83 degrees altitude at 12.30am.
In any case that was giving you the lowest FWHM at that time.
cheers
Allan
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Thanks Allan but I think you misunderstood, I was referring to the degree of tilt the spiral/galaxy disc is showing, as we look at it from 40 Million light years away, not it's elevation in the sky above the horizon..?
Mike