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neufer wrote:
Either:
1) You have Cetus Strait
2) or "ANDROMEDA" is still up for de bait.

Nitpicker wrote:

neufer wrote:
ANDROMEDA: "to think of a man" from the Greek element ανδρος (andros) "of a man"

• combined with μηδομαι (medomai) "to think, to be mindful of".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_(mythology) says this:

Her name is the Latinized form of the Greek Ἀνδρομέδα (Androméda) or Ἀνδρομέδη (Andromédē): "ruler of men", from ἀνήρ, ἀνδρός (anēr, andrós) "man", and medon, "ruler".

• 2) or "ANDROMEDA" is still up for de bait.

Nitpicker wrote:
(Must be a more popular name than Perseus.)

http://www.behindthename.com/name/percy wrote:

[b][color=#0000FF]Popularity for PERCY in the United States[/color][/b]

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<<PERCY: From an English surname which was derived from the name of a Norman town Perci, which was itself perhaps derived from a Gaulish given name which was Latinized as Persius. The surname was borne by a noble English family, and it first used as a given name in their honour. A famous bearer was Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), an English romantic poet whose works include 'Adonais' and 'Ozymandias'.>>

neufer wrote:Andromeda is not among the top 4,275 U.S. female names.

ANDROMEDA: "to think of a man" from the Greek element ανδρος (andros) "of a man"

• combined with μηδομαι (medomai) "to think, to be mindful of".

Her name is the Latinized form of the Greek Ἀνδρομέδα (Androméda) or Ἀνδρομέδη (Andromédē): "ruler of men", from ἀνήρ, ἀνδρός (anēr, andrós) "man", and medon, "ruler".

bystander wrote:

ta152h0 wrote:
wonder how many girls born today are named " Andromeda" ?

I would guess not many, too hard to misspell.

• combined with μηδομαι (medomai) "to think, to be mindful of".

LocalColor wrote:Very nice image.

From our back yard with a Canon 7D camera and Canon 400 mm lens f2.8 (right side up)

m31-20140701-b.jpg

ta152h0 wrote:wonder how many girls born today are named " Andromeda " ?

geckzilla wrote:

Boomer12k wrote:

Psnarf wrote:Are there any stars that belong to Andromeda visible in this image? The outer blue ring is all local stars? The galaxies above and below Andromeda, M32 and M110, are definitely too far away to resolve individual stars in this image. The imagination is staggered to think there are billions of individual stars in those two regions of diffuse light, as is the inner region with more and more stars the closer you get to the center. This is what the galaxy looked like 2.5 million years ago. I imagine M32 and M110 are much closer today. Has anyone seen my apparently misplaced Tardis?

From what I see.....NO...there are no resolved stars in the Andromeda Galaxy in this image. The "outer blue Ring"...is not local... but apart of the RIM of the Andromeda Galaxy. All of the "SPECKLES" would be stars in OUR galaxy.
The Galaxies maybe CLOSER today...but that light still won't reach us for a very long time.....

It think...THE DOCTOR borrowed your Tardis....

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This is not totally true. There are a lot of foreground stars from our Milky Way, but not all of them that look like foreground stars are. When the picture is adjusted to be brighter it becomes nearly impossible to tell the difference between a globular cluster and an individual Milky Way star, but Andromeda hosts hundreds of globular clusters and these are easily seen in this image. Are you going to be able to tell which is which just from looking at them? Probably not. They're mostly fainter but that's not much to go on. Here is a screenshot from Aladin of some of the globular clusters of Andromeda. Note that there are plenty more far away from the galaxy which I didn't even load. You could easily take these data and overlay them on Bersonic's image to figure out which ones he managed to capture. He probably already did it himself.

m31_globularclusters.png

Boomer12k wrote:

Psnarf wrote:Are there any stars that belong to Andromeda visible in this image? The outer blue ring is all local stars? The galaxies above and below Andromeda, M32 and M110, are definitely too far away to resolve individual stars in this image. The imagination is staggered to think there are billions of individual stars in those two regions of diffuse light, as is the inner region with more and more stars the closer you get to the center. This is what the galaxy looked like 2.5 million years ago. I imagine M32 and M110 are much closer today. Has anyone seen my apparently misplaced Tardis?

From what I see.....NO...there are no resolved stars in the Andromeda Galaxy in this image. The "outer blue Ring"...is not local... but apart of the RIM of the Andromeda Galaxy. All of the "SPECKLES" would be stars in OUR galaxy.
The Galaxies maybe CLOSER today...but that light still won't reach us for a very long time.....

It think...THE DOCTOR borrowed your Tardis....

:---[===] *

tom p wrote:This is one of the few photos I've seen that shows there's a bright dot in the center of M31 (usually all of the middle is washed out). When I've looked at M31 in telescopes, I've always been struck by the stellar-like bright dot in the center of the galaxy. What is it?

tom p wrote:
This is one of the few photos I've seen that shows there's a bright dot in the center of M31 (usually all of the middle is washed out). When I've looked at M31 in telescopes, I've always been struck by the stellar-like bright dot in the center of the galaxy. What is it?

http://robgendlerastropics.com/M31text.html wrote:
<<The brighter [central M31] light source P1 is artifactual and has its basis in the eccentricity of the rotating circumnuclear stellar disk. It seems that the appearance of the two extremes of the ellipsoidal orbit creates an illusion of a second bright region towards our line of site. Several other galaxies are known which possess a true double nucleus however in these cases the second nucleus was most likely acquired in a previous merger event.>>

Psnarf wrote:Are there any stars that belong to Andromeda visible in this image? The outer blue ring is all local stars? The galaxies above and below Andromeda, M32 and M110, are definitely too far away to resolve individual stars in this image. The imagination is staggered to think there are billions of individual stars in those two regions of diffuse light, as is the inner region with more and more stars the closer you get to the center. This is what the galaxy looked like 2.5 million years ago. I imagine M32 and M110 are much closer today. Has anyone seen my apparently misplaced Tardis?

Ann wrote:This APOD pretty much amounts to an exhortation to the astronomically interested general public: buy yourself a camera and a small telescope, and go outside at night and shoot splendid images of another galaxy!

APOD Robot wrote:
...the above image of M31 was taken with a standard camera through a small telescope.