h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Star Constellations: Perseus - A28781067
Author: Galaxy Babe - U128652

Another of the constellation project for review, Cefpret started it, I've added to it.

GB

It says here that the Perseus Arm is one of the spiral arms of our galaxy. We are in the other one - the Orion Arm. Might be worth a mention?

Icy

thanks Icy

I don't think that "spiral arm" reference is right.

The Perseus Arm is one of the four major spiral arms of our Milky Way Galaxy. We are in the minor Orion arm.

Empty cells in the table look bad, as the browser doesn't draw a box around them. You should put a non-breaking space   in any empty cell.

The table would be much easier for you to manage if you put each cell on a separate line. Have a look at the tables in the Orion entry <./>test395165</.> to see how they could look. This won't change the look of the Entry in any way, but when you are editing it you'd be able to see what you are doing. Again to make it neater, you could start each row with and then remove all those and tags.

I didn't realise there were empty cells. I really hate tables, even more than I hate repairing other people's wrong tables.

When you do do you need to close the CENTER tag?

Thanks for putting me right, Gnomon.

One of the reasons you hate tables is because you have them all mashed up in a big lump, rather than neatly spaced on separate lines. As I said, they look the same in the final Entry, but they are a lot easier to edit if they are neat.

You don't need anything to close the CENTER if it is in the TR. You have:



at the start of the row and:



at the end. The ALIGN="CENTER" is an attribute which is describing the TR tag.

I've tweaked the spiral arm bit

I'm unmashing Cefpret's code

How's it looking now?

I've added some more info on Comet Holmes

A laymans question GB.

""The constellation is 28 degrees in length""

What does 28 degrees in length translate to or mean?

Hi ST, the northern hemisphere is 180 deg - half a circle, so Perseus at 28 deg in length covers about a sixth of the sky, that we can see, does that help?

Would you like me to footnote that?

Nah, no need.

Ta for that.

Phew. I just hope I was right

Anything else, or can I get on with the next constellation?