What is our Galaxy's Hubble type? ================================= The answer: a hefty Sb(c), more or less. Possibly with a bar! Spergel & Blitz 1991 +- ? Deich, Ay 124 class project, 1990. Readings: * GKK, chapter 15. - Chapters by van den Kruit, and Burton & Deul, in "The Galaxy" (ed. Gilmore, 1987). - Hodge, P. 1983, P.A.S.P. 95, 721. - Hodge, P. 1985, in IAU Symp. 106, "The Milky Way Galaxy", p. 423. The official (IAU) properties of the Galaxy: - Kerr, F., and Lynden-Bell, D. 1986, M.N.R.A.S. 221, 1023.