Re: [Celestia-developers] Mlky Way plane

[Chris L. <cl...@ww...>]

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Christophe Teyssier wrote:

> 
> Have you noticed that the plane of the Milky Way doesn't match the highest 
> density plane of the local star field:
> cel://Follow/Sol:Jupiter:Io/2003-01-27T19:03:06.56?x=AAC0ykfKxALBBMQo&y=CnxycmI3BEnLxgMD&z=VcqWemiwqTjC/8aW+v///w&ow=0.013826&ox=0.507410&oy=-0.861568&oz=0.006753&select=Sol:Jupiter:Io&fov=45.000000&ts=1.000000&rf=6039&lm=0
> 
> Is that normal? 

It probably means that we need to tweak the orientation of the Milky Way 
in galaxies.dat.  I don't have hard data on the orientation, so I just 
eyeballed it.  But maybe I just didn't look hard enough.  Is there 
infromation any place on the orientation of our galaxy?

--Chris