M91, NGC 4548
noirlab_noao-m91 June 30th, 2020
Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
M91 is a spiral galaxy of type SBb in the constellation Coma Berenices. The bar is quite conspicuous. M91 was considered the `lost' Messier object: see the discussion at the Web site of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space. M91 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 CCD composite picture was taken in April 1998 at the Kitt Peak 0.9-meter telescope. The Virgo cluster also includes Messier galaxies M49, M58, M59, M60, M61, M84, M85, M86, M87, M88, M89, M90, M98, M99, and M100.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m91/
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-m91
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- M91, NGC 4548
- Credits
- NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
- Release Date
- 2020-06-30T21:33:53
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m91/
- 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
- 188.7907621, 14.44943324
- Reference Dimension
- 2048.0, 2048.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1750.76828, 546.9776611
- Scale
- -9.45e-05, 9.46e-05
- Rotation
- 0.7816450778
- 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-m91
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-m91.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:32.957762
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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