Deep Space Live Stream 2-20-21

Uhhhh? Well thanks for ignoring me ole wise one.

Confused I am... but be it so

Good day

I'll stick with my Hubble Deep Field Pics, thank you very much.

"Stars without borders"

Final stacked image of the galaxy:
[link to drive.google.com (secure)]

I crashed early last night and missed your stream. :(

Thanks for the image tho.

Very cool.

WRONG. The nearest main star in the constellation is at a distance of 43.96 light years and the furthest main star is a distance of 508.84 light years. The average distance to the main stars is 161.12 light years.

Seriously stfu. A constellation as a whole cannot be measured in one distance, but as you yourself pointed out, individually of course moron.

In case you really are a dumb shit... The stars in the constellations are spread out across our galaxy, and in our line of site, appear like they are next to each other.

Is it magic, or some other kind of trickery?

No just science dumb fuck. You can't fit a huge constellation right front of us in the viewer of a telescope. Galaxy or Nebula far far away? Sure, because it's one object not a dozen.

No wonder u need a gun with all that anger. What a cranky child when wrong, sorry Timmy, the kids at Google are smarter.

The constellation is really just a region of the sky. There are different ways of drawing the constellations, including Ursa Major. The above poster apparently didn't reference one of the figures that uses Alula Australis as one of the "main stars" but some figures do.
[link to in-the-sky.org (secure)]
Alula Australis would be even closer than the closest star that the previous poster referenced. It's only about 29 light years away. Trying to come up with a distance to a constellation is absolutely nonsensical. There is no such thing as a singular official way to draw each of the constellations, so who gets to decide which stars are the main stars and since when is an average distance of an arbitrary list of stars an actual distance to a given "constellation?"

The constellation Orion also includes the Orion Nebula in his sword, but the Orion nebula is not a star so does that get counted as well in the average? If so, then do we average the distance of all of the stars that are in the Orion nebula, or do we list all of those stars in the Orion nebula in the list of stars that are considered to be main stars in the constellation and end up skewing the average? Several of the stars in the trapezium of the nebula, as well as several in the running man and M43 right next to it are technically bright enough to be visible to the eye, but they are so close together they are generally perceived as just being part of the brightness of that spot in the sky. So do they all count as individual listings on that average?

The question was completely nonsensical and not deserving of an answer.

Last Edited by Astromut on 02/22/2021 08:30 AM

Not sure what gave you the impression that I was angry during the live stream. I'm armed because of the angry, crazy haters I have to deal with.