M94, NGC 4736
noirlab_noao-m94 December 16th, 2002
Credit: Hillary Mathis, N.A.Sharp/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/
The Sab spiral galaxy M94 in the constellation Canes Venatici is considered by some (but not others) to be in a group including M64 and various fainter galaxies. It has an extremely bright innner region surrounded by a blue ring of young star clusters, then a fainter yellowish region of older stars also surrounded by traces of young stars, and even further out a very much fainter outer ring. All of these features are visible in this picture, due to the use of a drastically compressed intensity mapping. This stretch also reveals quite a few small faint background galaxies. This picture was taken in May 1998 at the KPNO 0.9-meter telescope. Image size 17.0 arc minutes.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m94/
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-m94
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- M94, NGC 4736
- Credits
- Hillary Mathis, N.A.Sharp/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/
- Release Date
- 2002-12-16T11:48:56
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m94/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- None
- Facility
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- N
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 192.6878622, 41.11261452
- Reference Dimension
- 3000.0, 3000.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1748.344864, 1426.246368
- Scale
- -9.41E-05, 9.45E-05
- Rotation
- 1.420246403
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- None
- 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-m94
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-m94.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:26.935800
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
