Re: BREAKING NEWS: The Galaxy's newest satellite

From: Jonathan Silverlight (jsilverlight_at_spam.merseia.fsnet.co.uk.invalid)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:42:34 +0100

In message <4o12e.12529$m31.128204@typhoon.sonic.net>, Magnificent
Universe <MagnificentUniverse@yyyyy.com> writes
>The Milky Way's newest satellite
>
>Astronomers spot the faintest galaxy ever seen--orbiting the Milky Way.
>
>By Ken Croswell, author of The Alchemy of the Heavens
>
>A diffuse collection of stars southwest of the Big Dipper's bowl is a small
>galaxy revolving around our own, say astronomers in the United States and
>Europe. The newfound galaxy is roughly 330,000 light-years away--only twice
>as far as the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky Way's brightest satellite
>galaxy.
>
>Full story: http://KenCroswell.com/UrsaMajorDwarf.html .

If pushed I can work it out for myself :-) but what's the visual
magnitude?

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