Talk:Messier 81

message: 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)
replies: text: I had certainly never heard of M81 being known as Bode's Galaxy before.  Google gives 10 times as many hits for "M81 galaxy" as it does for "Bode's Galaxy".  The normal convention is for article to be located at their most commonly used name, so I'd suggest this article be moved.  Of course, alternative names should be mentioned in the text but having the article located at Bode's Galaxy doesn't make much sense to me. Worldtraveller 12:59, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  While Bode's Galaxy certainly appears to be a neologism, it is one pre-dating its appearance in Wikipedia, with a few professional sites - notably NOAO and Rose-Hulman observatory citing it under this name . That said, I agree that it would perhaps be preferable to note this name under a principal entry of M81. Shall we leave this for (say) a month for comment and then decide? Robma 10:08, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Name Discussion

message: 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)
thread_title: Naked-eye visibility

message: 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)
replies: text: I thought this discussion was closed.  Well, no one protested the move. GeorgeJBendo 08:12, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move

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*Support for reasons given above. GeorgeJBendo 14:47, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: 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)
replies: text: I thought this discussion was closed.  Well, no one protested the move. GeorgeJBendo 08:12, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: 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)
replies: text: Both figures are easy to trace to a source paper as well. It would also seem to me that in several situations, at least with brighter objects, a visual magnitude would be more useful, as opposed to a photographic mag. That being said, it should be something that possibly should go under consideration for stndardization sometime, as there is no trend that I can detect. The M33 article references Vmag, M31 an approximate Bmag, for example.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.235.35.162 (talk) 14:48, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have changed the less proper Bmag (photographic) 7.89 to Vmag (visual) 6.94 as the infobox requests. -- Kheider (talk) 20:38, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think the paper mentioned above is a good source. Ruslik_Zero 10:03, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have now also updated:Andromeda Galaxy (M31) @ 3.44, Centaurus A @ 6.84, M83 @ 7.54, M101 @ 7.86, NGC 55 @ 7.87, M32 @ 8.08, and M82 @ 8.41. -- Kheider (talk) 19:24, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: 2009 re-challenge

message: 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:
:In the fictional Star Fleet Universe, M81 is the home galaxy for a number of star-faring races, including the Tholians and Seltorians (who arrive in the Alpha Octant of the Milky Way in the SFU timeline) and the Bolosco (who establish themselves in the adjacent Omega Octant).
Please discuss here if it should be added back into the article.  Dr. Submillimeter 08:26, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of M81 in fiction section 

message: 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)
thread_title:  SN 1993J 

message: Galaxy: Exploring the milky way says the size is 70000 LY.
Should i put this in?
Mocha2007 (talk) 18:03, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Galaxy: Exploring the milky way 

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message: 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)
replies: text: yes 2403:6200:8852:384D:E453:6069:81E0:ADAC (talk) 12:39, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: @ 2403:6200:8852:384D:E453:6069:81E0:ADAC (talk) 12:39, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi 2600:1700:4A80:7FC0:C05B:9C10:79F0:DC14 (talk) 19:30, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do we have a Distance ref.?