M108, NGC 3556
noirlab_noao-m108 June 30th, 2020
Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
M108 is a type Sc spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. Almost edge-on, it shows little or no bulge and no noticeably strong center, being a motley collection of features often referred to, in classic understatement, as very dusty. The spiral structure is not very clearly delineated, unsurprisingly. M108 is around 40 to 50 million light-years away in a loose galaxy grouping which includes M109 and possibly M106. This picture was created from observations using the T2KA CCD camera at the Kitt Peak National Observatory's 0.9-meter telescope in January of 1997.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m108/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
- ID
- noao-m108
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- M108, NGC 3556
- Credits
- NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
- Release Date
- 2020-06-30T21:33:55
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m108/
- 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
- 168.0046551, 55.66049067
- Reference Dimension
- 2048.0, 1366.0
- Reference Pixel
- 304.6200275, 536.8387299
- Scale
- -9.46e-05, 9.46e-05
- Rotation
- 1.225409886
- 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-m108
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-m108.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:33.842148
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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