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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2246142" data-attributes="member: 2205">Yep, you'd be wrong.  With good viewing conditions, most folks can see M33 (the Triangulum galaxy) with the naked eye as well, and there are reports of exceptionally sharp-eyed folks spotting M81 (Bode's Galaxy) with the naked eye as well.  And I don't understand your comment at all.  Of course you count the Magellanic Clouds as separate from the Milky Way.  They are separate.  That's a given.  They're not even the closest galaxies to ours.  The Canis Major Dwarf and SagDEG galaxies are closer than the LMC.Yes, you could, possibly.  Oh, sure, you wouldn't see the spiral during the day, but it's possible you'd see the nucleus, which is why I mentioned it.Anyway, that was a throwaway comment; everybody's been very hung up on it.  I haven't tried to calculate the apparent magnitude and really see if it would be visible during the day or not (that depends on how bright the sun is, and other objects in the sky too), I just mentioned it as a possibility.Thanks for your permission.  Can anyone answer the question I asked, or am I going to have to continue to defend my statement from a scientific point of view over and over?</blockquote>