Cluster of galaxies in Hercules
noirlab_noao-03496 June 30th, 2020
Credit: NOIRLab/AURA/NSF
Abell 2151, the Hercules cluster, is a small, irregular cluster, with a core membership of fewer than 100 galaxies, and no strongly dominant central galaxy. It is more than 360 million light-years away and probably contains 1000 billion solar masses of sundry materials. It contains the two peculiar systems Arp 71 (NGC6045) and Arp 272 (NGC6050+IC1179). KPNO 4-meter Mayall telescope, 1974.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-03496/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- ID
- noao-03496
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- Abell 2151, Hercules cluster
- Credits
- NOIRLab/AURA/NSF
- Release Date
- 2020-06-30T21:33:47.630663
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-03496/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- None
- Facility
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- N
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 241.3649661, 17.90155409
- Reference Dimension
- 5909.0, 4824.0
- Reference Pixel
- 5236.077393, 2800.290833
- Scale
- -5.23E-05, 5.14E-05
- Rotation
- -90.1264357
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- None
- 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-03496
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-03496.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:34.051500
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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