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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
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
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Hi Mike,
you're right - I misunderstood.
I should have read Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_2997
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It is inclined at an angle of 40° to the line of sight from the Earth,
with the major axis aligned along a position angle of 110°.[9]
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