Makes me feel mighty important in the overall scheme.... ________________________________ From: Canopus56 <canopus56@yahoo.com> To: Utah Astronomy List Serv <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Sun, April 25, 2010 7:32:55 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Finding showcase galaxies in the Leo Spur P.S. - Most of the amateur experience with the Virgo Supercluster is confined to within 65 million light years or around 20 mega parsecs. This is about 3% of galaxies in the observable universe that has been mapped to 2 billion light years in distance-then. (65 million ly / 2 billion ly = 3%) Powell's Atlas of the Universe puts this local supercluster in perspective: Powell's plot of from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey to 2 billion light years http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/2dfslice.gif Powell's scale diagram of the observable universe: http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/universe.gif in http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/universe.html - Kurt _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com