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Old 10-09-2010, 06:38 PM
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There's no tidal stream to where Greg mentioned...it's the cirrus, but there is one if you look at the NGC6744A and the distorted spiral arm and stream of stars from the main galaxy. It's faint and you have to know what to look for, but it's there
Yeeeeeeh.... but, tidal steams are more commonly noticed around more edge on galaxies, they tend to get a bit lost when looking down on a galaxy.

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