M86, NGC 4406
noirlab_noao-02328 June 30th, 2020
Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
M86 is a lenticular galaxy, although some prefer to call it an elliptical, and a member of the large Virgo Cluster of galaxies, in the constellation Virgo. M86 is about 60 million light-years away, maybe 25000 light-years across, and was imaged by the KPNO 4-meter Mayall telescope in 1975. We also have a newer color image from the KPNO 0.9-m telescope.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-02328/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noao-02328
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- M86, NGC 4406
- Credits
- NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
- Release Date
- 2020-06-30T21:33:52
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-02328/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 186.5931868, 12.94969735
- Reference Dimension
- 2500.0, 2000.0
- Reference Pixel
- 344.2043018, 1056.357803
- Scale
- -4.4e-05, 4.4e-05
- Rotation
- 2.277830437
- 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-02328
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-02328.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:36.976311
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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