NGC 1270 Wide-field View

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noirlab_NGC1270_DSS_16b_B-RI_Jul2024 October 21st, 2024

Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey

A wide-field view of the area around NGC 1270, one member of the Perseus Cluster, a group of thousands of galaxies that lies around 240 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Perseus.

Provider: NOIRLab

Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/NGC1270_DSS_16b_B-RI_Jul2024/

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 1270

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Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 3h 17m 59.8s; DEC = 40° 57’ 59.9”
Orientation: North is 1.9° CCW
Field of View: 8.1 x 4.5 degrees
Constellation: Perseus

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
DSS (None)	Optical (I)	825.0 nm
DSS (None)	Optical (R)	649.0 nm
DSS (None)	Optical (B)	479.0 nm

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ID: NGC1270_DSS_16b_B-RI_Jul2024
Subject Category
Subject Name: NGC 1270
Credits: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey

Release Date: 2024-10-21T10:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/NGC1270_DSS_16b_B-RI_Jul2024/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

Facility: Digitized Sky Survey, Digitized Sky Survey, Digitized Sky Survey
Instrument: None, None, None
Color Assignment: Red, Orange, Cyan

Band: Optical, Optical, Optical
Bandpass: I, R, B
Central Wavelength: 825, 649, 479

Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID: None, None, None
Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 49.49929797504055, 40.966632313949695
Reference Dimension: 29021.0, 16153.0

Reference Pixel: 14510.5, 8076.5
Scale: -0.00028046329040318837, 0.00028046329040318837
Rotation: 1.8800000000000012
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: NGC1270_DSS_16b_B-RI_Jul2024

Resource URL: http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/NGC1270_DSS_16b_B-RI_Jul2024.tif
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Metadata Date: 2024-07-22T14:18:07+02:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

Detailed color mapping information coming soon...

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