Dark Energy Survey begins five-year mission to map southern sky in tremendous detail

noirlab_noao1310b September 3rd, 2013

Credit: Dark Energy Survey

This image of the NGC 1398 galaxy was taken with the Dark Energy Camera. This galaxy lives in the Fornax cluster, roughly 65 million light years from Earth. It is 135,000 light years in diameter, just slightly larger than our own Milky Way galaxy, and contains more than a hundred million stars.

Provider: NOIRLab

Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao1310b/

Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: NGC 1398

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 3h 39m 0.0s; DEC = -26° 21’ 30.8”
Orientation: North is 0.2° CCW
Field of View: 13.2 x 7.4 arcminutes
Constellation: Fornax

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
Blanco-4m (DECam)	Optical (I)	785.0 nm
Blanco-4m (DECam)	Optical (R)	644.0 nm
Blanco-4m (DECam)	Optical (G)	474.0 nm

ID: noao1310b
Subject Category
Subject Name: NGC 1398
Credits: Dark Energy Survey

Release Date: 2013-09-03T00:00:00
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Reference Url: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao1310b/

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: Optical, 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: 54.7501560825, -26.3585425991
Reference Dimension: 1500.0, 844.0

Reference Pixel: 750.0, 422.0
Scale: -0.000146611360131, 0.000146611360131
Rotation: 0.18000000000000002
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
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Notes

Creator (Curator): NSF's NOIRLab
URL: https://noirlab.edu
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Email

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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: noao1310b

Resource URL: http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao1310b.tif
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Metadata Date: 2020-06-01T19:51:36+02:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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