World’s most powerful digital camera opens eye, records first images in hunt for dark energy
noirlab_noao1204b September 17th, 2012
Credit: Dark Energy Survey Collaboration
Zoomed-in image from the Dark Energy Camera of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365, in the Fornax cluster of galaxies, which lies about 60 million light years from Earth.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao1204b/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noao1204b
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- NGC 1365
- Credits
- Dark Energy Survey Collaboration
- Release Date
- 2012-09-17T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao1204b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope
- Instrument
- DECam, DECam, DECam
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, R, G
- Central Wavelength
- 785, 644, 474
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 53.4023181947, -36.1409272025
- Reference Dimension
- 2013.0, 1363.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1006.5, 681.5
- Scale
- -7.27363636666e-05, 7.27363636666e-05
- Rotation
- -90.180000000000064
- 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
- noao1204b
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao1204b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2020-06-01T17:52:39+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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