The Astrology of Space - Matrix Software

The Astrology of Space
Direction of Motion of the Galaxy
R.A. Decl. Long Lat MC L2 B2
063 00 14 +35 26 11 067 35 13 +14 04 05 064 56 59 163 00 00 -11 00 00
The direction of this motion is approximately at a right
angle to the direction of the center of the local
supercluster, the Virgo Cluster. A question
astronomers are attempting to decide is: is the local
supercluster rotating, and are we orbiting the Virgo
cluster? We cannot be in a bound Keplerian-type of
orbit, for at our present distance from the center of the
Virgo Cluster, such an orbit would take a time period
of ten times the age of the Universe!
It is suggested that we may have moved away from a
closer orbit in the same fashion that the ends of
spiral-arms trail away from the nuclei of galaxies. At
any rate, it appears that we are moving at about a
right angle or edge-on toward SGL (super-galactic
longitude) = 351° and SGB = -26°. We are moving, so
it appears, away from the center of the supergalaxy
(the Virgo Cluster) and slightly below the
Supergalactic plane.
As we have seen, galaxies are often members of
pairs, triplets and groups of increasing multiplicity. In
fact, grouping or clustering (as it is called) is the rule
rather than the exception. The Large Small
Magellanic Clouds form a close pair and along with
our galaxy, a loose triplet. M.31 (Andromeda) is the
major component of a triplet including the two elliptical
galaxies M.32 and NGC 205, and of a loose group
with M.33 and the smaller ellipticals NGC 147 and
185.
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