This weekend is the second 2008 window for the Messier Marathon. Since Friday night is clouded out for me, I decided to do some web surfing and ran across the STScI's website of web distributed astronomy lectures. Since the Realm of the Galaxies is well positioned at midnight, David Radburn-Smith's recent lecture entitled "Revealing the Great Attractor" caught my eye. STScI's Lecture Webpage http://hubblesite.org/about_us/public-talks.shtml Streaming lecture 35 minutes http://www.stsci.edu/ts/webcasting/ram/PublicLectureSeries/DavidRadburnSmith... Presentation slideshow http://hubblesite.org/about_us/presentations/radburn-smith_2008_03_04.pdf Radburn-Smith has alot of good recent simulations of the 3-D structure of galaxy clusters - appropriate inspirational material for setting up to look at the Virgo Cluster. So, if you have a high-speed internet connection, I recommend it. - Kurt ____________________________________________________________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com