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Old 10-12-2008, 06:23 AM
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The outside edge of the Milky Way is about 4.3 degrees to the right of beta Tauri (Elnath) at 1am DST. It is on the left of the mid point between M35 and M37. If you travel 20,000 light years in that direction you will leave our galaxy. The attached SkyMapPro map labels it 180.
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