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Re: But is it the Milky Way? | |
Posted By: kapowaz <halo.bungie.org@kapowaz.net> | Date: 11/8/07 12:21 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: But is it the Milky Way? (ThirdE) : Actual light views fo the Milky Way may differ from the one in the : Cartographer. Just last night I was up at the observatory at CU-Boulder : looking at true-color images of nebulae and galaxies. The TA reminded me : that using false-color images or images with other light sources of the : electromagnetic spectrum can bring out more detail. It's reasonable to : assume that Forerunner tech could have done this for similar reasons. Interesting stuff. Would that account for a different shape, though? Also the relative viewing angle between The Ark and the galaxy in the sky is a lot narrower than the distance between The Ark and the galaxy in the hologram would suggest. The Ark is only just on the peripherary of the hologram, and is on the same rough horizontal plane as the direction of rotation. This would suggest that what you'd actually see in the sky would be a much larger cluster of stars, edge-on; not a top-down view of a galaxy at some considerable distance.
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