M101; Pinwheel Galaxy
noirlab_noao-m101ubviha June 30th, 2020
Credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)
This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic Camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. Informally known as the Pinwheel Galaxy, M101 is a spiral galaxy that is seen face on. It is a galaxy similar to our own galaxy, the Milky Way. It is relatively close by, only about 20 million light years away, meaning that we can see detail inside very well. The spiral arms of M101 are filled with numerous regions in which stars are forming (seen as pink clouds of gas). This image was made with the U (violet), B (blue), V (green), I (orange), and Hydrogen alpha (red) filters. In this image, North is to the right and East is up.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m101ubviha/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noao-m101ubviha
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- M101, Pinwheel Galaxy
- Credits
- T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)
- Release Date
- 2020-06-30T21:33:54.338983
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m101ubviha/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- None
- Facility
- Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope, Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope, Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope, Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope, Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope
- Instrument
- Mosaic I, Mosaic I, Mosaic I, Mosaic I, Mosaic I
- Color Assignment
- Red, Orange, Green, Blue, Purple
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Ha, I, V, B, U
- Central Wavelength
- 656, 805, 537, 436, 357
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None, None
- Notes
- N
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 210.9678085, 54.16514138
- Reference Dimension
- 7296.0, 7353.0
- Reference Pixel
- 6227.925903, 2650.097473
- Scale
- -7.23E-05, 7.21E-05
- Rotation
- 89.85284828
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- None
- Creator (Curator)
- NSF's NOIRLab
- URL
- https://noirlab.edu
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- 950 North Cherry Ave.
- City
- Tucson
- State/Province
- AZ
- Postal Code
- 85719
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- NSF's NOIRLab
- Publisher ID
- noirlab
- Resource ID
- noao-m101ubviha
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-m101ubviha.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:22.321344
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
