M26, NGC 6694
noirlab_noao-m26 June 30th, 2020
Credit: Hillary Mathis, Vanessa Harvey, REU program/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
M26 is an open cluster in the constellation Scutum. A fairly tight cluster, in this deep image it has to compete with a very populous background of Milky Way stars. It is about 5000 light-years away and around 90 million years old. This approximately true-color picture was created from images taken in June 1996 using BVR colors, at the Burrell Schmidt telescope of Case Western Reserve University's Warner and Swasey Observatory located on Kitt Peak, near Tucson, Arizona, during the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program operated at the Kitt Peak National Observatory and supported by the National Science Foundation. Image size 23.7 arc minutes.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m26/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noao-m26
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- M26, NGC 6694
- Credits
- Hillary Mathis, Vanessa Harvey, REU program/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
- Release Date
- 2020-06-30T21:34:16
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m26/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Burrell Schmidt Telescope, Burrell Schmidt Telescope, Burrell Schmidt Telescope
- Instrument
- None, None, None
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- R, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 281.3302618, -9.427330299
- Reference Dimension
- 1400.0, 1400.0
- Reference Pixel
- 648.9338646, 563.8010788
- Scale
- -0.000282, 0.000282
- Rotation
- 2.616242942
- 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-m26
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-m26.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:35.162079
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
