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Subject: The Sagittarius Dwarf
From: Bill Arnett
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Sun Feb 04 01:27:58 1996

Well, you learn something new every day:

It seems, according to <URL:http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html>
that the LMC is NOT the closest galaxy to our own. That distinction now
belongs to "The Sagittarius Dwarf" whose image appears on the
aforementioned WWW page. I doubt we will ever see this galaxy with an
amateur scope, though, the image, also available at
<URL:http://sparc.not.iac.es/~oksanen/images/sgrdwarf.gif>, looks pretty
faint and was 500s with a 2.5m scope. Nevertheless I would be curious to
know the RA and Dec of this object if anyone has it handy.

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Bill Arnett                 "Science is a way of trying
San Jose, CA  USA            not to fool yourself."      -- Feynman
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