Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Professor Mike Merrifield discusses methods for measuring the distance to NGC 2. Includes the Tully-Fisher method. More links and info in full description ↓↓↓

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A New Method of Determining Distances to Galaxies: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1975BAAS....7..426T/abstract

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