M29, NGC 6913
noirlab_noao-m29 June 30th, 2020
Credit: Hillary Mathis/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
M29 is an open cluster in the constellation Cygnus. Coarser and less impressive than some others, it is in a crowded area of our Galaxy, the Milky Way. Its distance is uncertain, being somewhere between 4000 and 6000 light-years, due to rather strong and poorly known absorption by intervening dust, without which it would be several times brighter. This approximately true color picture was created from sixteen frames taken at the KPNO 2.1-meter telescope on the night of June 18/19, 2003.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m29/
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-m29
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- M29, NGC 6913
- Credits
- Hillary Mathis/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
- Release Date
- 2020-06-30T21:34:16
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m29/
- 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
- 306.0112488, 38.49514796
- Reference Dimension
- 1250.0, 1250.0
- Reference Pixel
- 385.4427681, 439.0954437
- Scale
- -8.44e-05, 8.46e-05
- Rotation
- 0.4137930486
- 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-m29
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-m29.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:35.179616
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
