NGC 253
noirlab_noao-n253hatfield February 24th, 2014
Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/George Hatfield/John Zum Brunnen and Steve Peterson
NGC 253 is a nearby galaxy at a distance of approximately 8 million light years away. The galaxy is some 60,000 light years in diameter- and its full disk extends beyond the field of view shown here. However, at this resolution (click on image) you can make out many features of this galaxy including: clumpy and dark clouds of gas, bright blue and white star clouds, and pink HII (clouds of molecular hydrogen) regions which are tremendous stellar nurseries. Also note the small galaxy just "above" the disk at the top left of the image. This image was taken as part of Advanced Observing Program (AOP) program at Kitt Peak Visitor Center during 2014.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-n253hatfield/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- noao-n253hatfield
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- NGC 253
- Credits
- KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/George Hatfield/John Zum Brunnen and Steve Peterson
- Release Date
- 2014-02-24T14:13:57
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-n253hatfield/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Visitor Center 0.5-meter Telescope, Visitor Center 0.5-meter Telescope, Visitor Center 0.5-meter Telescope, Visitor Center 0.5-meter Telescope
- Instrument
- Other CCD, Other CCD, Other CCD, Other CCD
- Color Assignment
- Luminosity, Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Broad Band, B, G, R
- Central Wavelength
- 555, 438, 475, 625
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 11.8173115944, -25.3305278896
- Reference Dimension
- 1512.0, 962.0
- Reference Pixel
- 522.561790466, 673.342417717
- Scale
- -0.000244834969606, 0.000244846722263
- Rotation
- -178.42794252463
- 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-n253hatfield
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-n253hatfield.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2021-08-30T16:35:29+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
