M45 Pleiades
noirlab_noao-m45 June 30th, 2020
Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), R. Cool (University of Arizona) and WIYN
This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic camera on the WIYN 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak, Arizona. The Pleiades are an open cluster easily visible to the naked eye. The cluster is dominated by several hot, luminous and massive stars. The blue nebulosity surrounding the brightest stars are due to blue light from the stars scattering off of dust grains in the interstellar gas between us and the stars. The cluster is also known as the 'Seven Sisters'. And in Japan it is called Subaru. The image was generated with observations in the B (blue), V (green), and I (red) filters. In this image,North is right, East is up.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m45/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noao-m45
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- M45
- Credits
- NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), R. Cool (University of Arizona) and WIYN
- Release Date
- 2020-06-30T21:34:17
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m45/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- WIYN 0.9-meter Telescope, WIYN 0.9-meter Telescope, WIYN 0.9-meter Telescope
- Instrument
- Mosaic I, Mosaic I, Mosaic I
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 805, 537, 436
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 56.55435826, 24.11007308
- Reference Dimension
- 9700.0, 7080.0
- Reference Pixel
- 4929.330811, 3330.368286
- Scale
- -0.000118, 0.000118
- Rotation
- -90.69909386
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- 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-m45
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-m45.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-07-05T02:00:22.354480
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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