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I'm not sure that I agree with a name change to "Bode's Galaxy". It is far better known as simply M81. -- Curps 22:15, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Comet Hale-Bopp is actually best known under the name "Hale-Bopp". And "M81" is best known as "M81". I don't think I ever heard of "Bode's Galaxy" before today. -- Curps 00:09, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I think it's the entire world you'd need to "educate", if Google is any indication. Usually, things on Wikipedia should be referred to by their most commonly used name. But anyway, carry on, for now. -- Curps 03:26, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
All scientific papers that I've read have called it M81. It makes no sense to "put a face to it" as there are countless galaxies and it would be overly difficult to refer to each one as a different name. I say change it back to M81. (Dear DairyPirate - please sign your contributions; thanks Robma 10:08, 27 July 2006 (UTC))
I would just like to say that most professional astronomers refer to this as M81 and that I agree that it should be renamed. (I also think M82 should be listed under "M82" and not the " Cigar Galaxy".)
I have amended the entry to address the issue of naked-eye visibility with a cited ref, as the denouement of the recent amendments dealing with this issue Robma 18:31, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Bode's Galaxy → Messier 81 – This galaxy is best known by both professional and amateur astronomers as "Messier 81" or "M81". "Bode's Galaxy" is simply too unfamiliar to use for this article's title. GeorgeJBendo 14:17, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
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OK, this survey's been running for a month and a half now. We unanimously voted to move it, so I'm glad that someone did the moving. -- Bowlhover 00:24, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Dr. Submillimeter According to the SEEDS ( http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m081.html) the visual magnitude of the M81 is 6.9 not 7.9 as you stated. This is also in excellent agreement with visual observations made by naked eye (under expectational conditions), binocular and telescope. Cheers Vedran ( http://www.inet.hr/vevrhova/english)
The article still shows the v-mag as 7.89. According to SIMBAD the correct v mag is 6.94. -- Kheider ( talk) 10:49, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
I removed the "M81 in fiction" section because, while it seemed to describe the Star Trek universe, it actually referred to a role-playing game based on Star Trek. This just did not seem notable enough to include in this article. The text is below:
Please discuss here if it should be added back into the article. Dr. Submillimeter 08:26, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
For what it's worth, I should note that the Star Fleet Universe is more than just another Trek derivation - but how and ever: I've put the aforementioned reference in the Galaxies in Fiction page, which is linked to in my latest edit of the M81 article. I hope that suffices. --
Nerroth
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This page is accumulating a lot of images that really are not needed for the discussion, so I am placing them here for the time being. I am not going to bother extending the descriptions of the visible light and Spitzer images unless they are really needed. Dr. Submillimeter 10:02, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
I started an article on SN 1993J and copied the information from this page to it, adding something on light echos. I'll leave it up to editors here to decide if the section in this article on the supernova should be trimmed.-- agr ( talk) 13:37, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
Galaxy: Exploring the milky way says the size is 70000 LY. Should i put this in? Mocha2007 ( talk) 18:03, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
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Article states a distance of 11.7 MLY but never gives a reference, nor even any indication what technique produces this estimate. FWIW the Schmidt paper on SN 1993 mentions an estimate derived from Cepheids, likely a good choice, though I do not know their ref. for that.
Anybody have a ref.? Jmacwiki ( talk) 17:45, 21 March 2020 (UTC)