Yeah, you're right. The next thing I tried this on was the Large Magellanic Cloud, which produced even more bizarre results, but I found a calculator for this online:
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/astro/hubble.html#c3
And eventually got some data to match up (it seems the LMC's...
Hi. I have pretty rudimentary math skills, and am hoping someone can explain this formula for me, found online a number of places including:
http://www.astrophysicsspectator.com/topics/overview/DistanceExtragalactic.html
for calculating distance (d) in megaparsecs using redshift (z), the...