M45, Pleiades
noirlab_noao-02461 June 30th, 2020
Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
M45, a portion of the Pleiades open star cluster in the constellation Taurus, at a distance of some 410 light-years. The glow around the stars is interstellar dust which shines by reflected starlight. The entire group is contained within a span of 20 light-years, and is believed to be 20 million years old. KPNO 4-meter Mayall telescope, 1975.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-02461/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- ID
- noao-02461
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- M45
- Credits
- NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
- Release Date
- 2020-06-30T21:34:18
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-02461/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
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- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 56.44534588, 24.08573964
- Reference Dimension
- 2500.0, 2000.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1498.33606, 773.3069458
- Scale
- -0.000372, 0.000374
- Rotation
- 0.3760755518
- 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-02461
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-02461.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:35.127183
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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