Small Magellanic Cloud
noirlab_noao-6051 June 30th, 2020
Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
The Small Magellanic Cloud is an irregular dwarf galaxy in the constellation Tucana, and is a satellite of our own Milky Way Galaxy. The SMC is visible to the naked eye from the southern hemisphere. CTIO Curtis Schmidt telescope photograph.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-6051/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noao-6051
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- SMC
- Credits
- NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
- Release Date
- 2020-06-30T21:34:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-6051/
- 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
- 10.26028875, -72.60482003
- Reference Dimension
- 2982.0, 1946.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2469.853638, 1086.073967
- Scale
- -0.000917, 0.000932
- Rotation
- -5.677010275
- 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-6051
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-6051.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2022-09-12T14:58:06.829565
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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