M61
noirlab_noao-m61block February 20th, 2014
Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Adam Block
M61 is one of the major members of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies. It is comparable in size to our own galaxy. Though a barred spiral, deep images such as this make the bar in the nucleus of the galaxy less obvious. This galaxy has an extraordinary number of star forming regions (HII, pink areas). An image with greater resolution would certainly show even more evidence of active star formation. At distance of 60 million light years away M61 seems to float in the foreground of several distant galaxies. This image was taken as part of Advanced Observing Program (AOP) program at Kitt Peak Visitor Center during 2014.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m61block/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
-
View Options
Download Options
-
Full Size Image
(2184 x 1472)
Source TIFF (2.9 MB)
- Additional Sizes (JPG)
- 320 x 215 (24.3 KB)
- 1280 x 862 (132 KB)
- 500 x 336 (35.3 KB)
- 1600 x 1078 (191 KB)
- 1024 x 690 (92.9 KB)
Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- noao-m61block
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- M61
- Credits
- KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Adam Block
- Release Date
- 2014-02-20T14:42:17
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m61block/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Visitor Center 0.5-meter Telescope, Visitor Center 0.5-meter Telescope, Visitor Center 0.5-meter Telescope, Visitor Center 0.5-meter Telescope
- Instrument
- Other CCD, Other CCD, Other CCD, Other CCD
- Color Assignment
- Luminosity, Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Broad Band, B, G, R
- Central Wavelength
- 555, 438, 475, 625
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 185.439881243, 4.41640323734
- Reference Dimension
- 2184.0, 1472.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1737.25735474, 1161.86820221
- Scale
- -9.48081926162e-05, 9.476978037e-05
- Rotation
- 89.797261703731
- 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-m61block
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-m61block.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2021-09-14T08:40:16-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
