All you need is $100,000 worth of Astro-Physics gear and SBIG/FLI
cameras to produce this:
On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 01:35:00 -0800 (PST), corvastro
wrote:
If M31 were 4 times closer, it would be a spectacular view in a
moderate aperture telescope at about 75x and an eyepiece with about a
1/2 degree field of view.
FYI: the apparent length of M31 in our sky is some 3 degrees. If it
was 4 times closer it would appear 12 degrees across. A field of view
of just 1/2 degree would then only show a small part of it.
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