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The next question I needed to answer was which radial velocity along the line of nodes I should use to calculate the orbital velocity. To find the mass of the whole galaxy, you need to find the mass enclosed in the orbit. In other words, you need to take the velocity of the point on the line of nodes at the very end because
all of the
mass stars orbit that is most toward the outside of the galaxy will
be found because the furthest point on the line of nodes encloses all enclose the
most mass. We can do this because the mass enclosed affects the orbit of the
final point stars on the line of nodes, so the whole mass of the galaxy affects the very
last end point on the
end line of nodes.
In order to find the radial velocity at that point, you need to take the velocity of the last value on the line of nodes and subtract the velocity from the center point in order to find the true radial velocity. That means, I did: