Talk:Dwingeloo 1

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Not to denigrate Hurricane Devon's work, and it is nice to see my image, but what is the justification for the statement that Dw1 is "much bigger then our "Sister Galaxy," Andromeda."? IIRC, our Nature paper concluded that it was of the order of a half or a quarter of the mass of the Milky Way, and the HI column density from the Westerbork observations pictured at Dwingeloo 2 suggested that that estimate was not far off.

The second image is also misleading: the zone of avoidance is not caused principally by the bulge of the Milky Way, but rather by its disk. In any event, I doubt that Dw1 will be that spectacular: it is not that large (the Maffei galaxies and IC342 are almost certainly larger) or close (they are all around 3 Mpc, and Andromeda is much closer, less than 1 Mpc). -- ALoan (Talk) 00:37, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

I didn't realize that Dwingeloo was smaller then the Milky Way. I fixed the problem. I also moved my segment on "How Dwingeloo will be better seen in th future" and moved it to the Maffei Group Artical. — Hurricane Devon (Talk) 17:49, 16 October 2005 (UTC)