Ok shoot me down in flames if this is just stupid.
Has anyone got or knows where to get a picture of the milky way with a big
arrow saying you are here. (i.e. the solar system) I can take it it won't fry
my brain to see myself alongside the whole of our galaxy:)
I don't want those pictures which are all lines and dots marking stars. I'd
like one of those nice representations showing the spiral arms and giving some
indication of our location within it:)
Is that just too much to ask?
Can't help you directly, but I've seen these as t-shirts and posters.
You might try a web surf of stores selling such. I know it's a long shot, but
I just realized I haven't seen any web sites with one of these.
The_Beast
> Ok shoot me down in flames if this is just stupid.
Nah, not stupid. Maybe uninformed and in seeking of answers, but not stupid.
> Has anyone got or knows where to get a picture of the milky way
Nope, not at all.
I don't know of any such image/pic on the web (maybe Nyrath has
something on one of his pages??), but you can find the information you are
looking
for in most basic intro-to-astronomy textbooks (and I'm not talking the
'these are the constellations' or 'field-guide' types of books, either).
Look in the chapters on the Milky Way. Most have illustrations indicating
where we are wrt the rest of the galaxy.
Now if you just want numbers, I can tell you that we are approximately
2/3
of the way out from the center of our galaxy (~10,000 parsecs distance), and
that our galaxy measures approximately 30,000 parsecs across.
(for any uninitiated, 1 parsec ~= 3.26 lightyears; the rest of the math is
left for you:)
Mk
I've found and posted somwthing like what he was looking for... Milky Way with
a "You Are Here" arrow on it, plus a couple from the trek background you could
adapt
> jeremy claridge wrote:
No, it's not too much to ask.