M54, NGC 6715
noirlab_noao-m54 June 30th, 2020
Credit: REU Program/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
M54 is a globular cluster in the constellation Sagittarius. It is bright but small, and its core is not resolved here. M54 was always thought to be some 60000 light-years away, but there is now a claim that it is actually part of an extragalactic system, a member of the Local Group called the Sagittarius Dwarf, which would move it out to nearly 90000 light-years. This composite was created from images taken in July 1998 at the KPNO 0.9-meter telescope, during the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program operated at the Kitt Peak National Observatory and supported by the National Science Foundation. Image size 11.6 arc minutes.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m54/
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-m54
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- M54, NGC 6715
- Credits
- REU Program/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
- Release Date
- 2020-06-30T21:53:13
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m54/
- 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
- 283.7449266, -30.45315716
- Reference Dimension
- 2048.0, 2048.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1191.2771, 1305.036461
- Scale
- -9.45e-05, 9.45e-05
- Rotation
- 1.814310587
- 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-m54
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-m54.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:35.111220
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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