M60, NGC 4649
noirlab_noao-m60 June 30th, 2020
Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
M60 is a large elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo, being about 120000 light-years across. It stands out in even small telescopes due to the proximity of the late-type spiral NGC4647 (to the NW), but such apertures may only see the central brighter regions, making M60 look considerably smaller. M60 has a large system of faint globular clusters, many thousands being visible in deep pictures: more than a few can be seen here. M60 is a member of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies, which is the dominant cluster in our Local Supercluster and about 60 million light-years away. This picture was taken in April 1998 at the KPNO 0.9-meter telescope. The Virgo cluster also includes Messier galaxies M49, M58, M59, M61, M84, M85, M86, M87, M88, M89, M90, M91, M98, M99, and M100.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m60/
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-m60
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- M60, NGC 4649
- Credits
- NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
- Release Date
- 2020-06-30T21:33:50
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m60/
- 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
- 190.9223352, 11.553113
- Reference Dimension
- 1100.0, 1200.0
- Reference Pixel
- 442.8982391, 494.8724289
- Scale
- -0.000189, 0.000189
- Rotation
- 0.7564185831
- 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-m60
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-m60.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:33.969395
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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