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Old 25-09-2009, 07:45 AM
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That's amazing, thanks for posting Glen.
I have been staring at it for ages trying to "get my bearings", trying to work out what the prominent stars and galaxies are.

I have located: Orion, Crux-Cent-Carina-SCP area. What is that Nebula on the far left, south of the plane? And the galaxy closer to the MW centre, also south of the plane, is that M31? Notice the defraction spikes on a couple of the brighter stars.

I've just put it on my desktop image to replace that Hubble image of the Sombrero (with all those galaxies in the background).
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