Can anyone tell me which constellation is the centre of the galaxy in?

[Esra Star]

I know it's not "in" a constellation, but rather behind it.
Anyway which is it? TIA

[kurth]

1. See:

http://cassfos02.ucsd.edu/public/tutorial/MW.html

[DRoseDARs]

2. Interesting, but this is a little more direct and helpful...

;)

http://www.ngmapstore.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=167&itemType=PRODUCT&iMainCat=6&iSubCat=43&iProductID=167

Click on the "More Views" button below the galaxy map and zoom in towards the horizontal image of our Galaxy. At 0 degrees is the ceter of the galaxy, just to the "right" of Lagoon M8.

http://www.ngmapstore.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=107&itemType=PRODUCT&iMainCat=6&iSubCat=43&iProductID=107

Now that you have a "landmark" to go by, again click the "More Views" button below this constellations map and find Sagittarius (near the far righthand side of the map). You be looking towards the galactic bulge that makes up the center of our galaxy. You'll also notice with this map how the Milky Way encircles our sky. Our planetary system doesn't rotate along the same plane of elliptic as the disk of the galaxy, much like Pluto doesn't with the rest of the planets (if Pluto remains catagorized as a planet that is) only more so.

[marions ghost]

3. Sagittarius

[varun]

4. yes, sagittarus

[Esra Star]

5. Thanks to all. Saggitarius is the answer I needed. n/t

[soothsayer]

6. I thought Saggitariuses thought they were the center of the

universe! (rimshot!)

[Odin2005]

7. There is no center of the Universe. :-)

There is no center of an infinite space.

[TechBear_Seattle]

10. There isn't?

The the theory of the Big Bang and an expanding universe implies a central point and an expanding boundary between universe and not-universe. Whether such a central point or boundary are detectable from within the universe is an entirely different matter.

[Tesha]

8. Yeah, and I'll bet "[you're] here all week!".

And we should tip our waitresses on the way out. :-)

Tesha

[benEzra]

9. I think it's just beyond the tip of the "teapot" in Sagittarius

if I remember correctly. That's the easiest way to locate it if you are doing casual observing.