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Extrasolar: Data Plots:
SDSS DR2 Galaxies

Summary:Data plot. Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Data Release 2, data plot of up to 243,673 galaxies. Requires Celestia v1.3.2pre3 or later. Click here for details.
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Creator:Selden Ball
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License:unknown
Added:2004-11-04 20:24
Last modified:2005-02-08 21:54

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2015-10-22 18:54
#4 sbcontt
My million thanks to Selden Bell for bringing SDSS DR12 database into Celestia. No other 3D universe map has this database yet; not Universe Sandbox, not WWT, not even Digital Universe. Please keep updating as more data get released.
2009-11-29 20:08
#3 Jesse
This is a truly remarkable add-on. It's amazing to see the large-scale "frothy" sponge-like structure of the universe. The sense of scale is mind-boggling.
2009-11-20 02:34
#2 anonymous
It would be cool indeed to actual render some of these as actual images of galaxies as time goes on.
2008-07-22 02:41
#1 Gnullbegg
For me this is definitely the single-most significant addon to celestia. Others may be more educational or entertaining or even both, but this one is nothing less than mind-boggling. I really do like “hugeness”. Every now and then I use to start celestia just to stroll around the solar system, look for pioneer 10 or voyager 2 (and then look back to the sun...) or compare the diameter of vv cephei with the size of our solar system and so on.
I always end up activating “nebulae” in the options and then slowly zooming out... and once more I'm stunned, fascinated, slightly uneasy and humbled at the same time. Very, very inspiring. Thanks a lot for this!
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