M96, NGC 3368
noirlab_noao-m96 June 30th, 2020
Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
The Sa spiral galaxy M96 is the second brightest member of the Leo I galaxy grouping, which includes M95 and M105, as well as various NGC and other galaxies. At a distance of about 38 million light-years, the faint outer regions just visible at the top and (particularly) the bottom of this image give M96 a total diameter of over 100000 light-years. This picture was taken in February 1996 at the KPNO 0.9-meter telescope. It has been considerably processed in order to show the inner nuclear structure in the same image as the faint outer regions. Image size 6.6 arc minutes.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m96/
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-m96
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- M96, NGC 3368
- Credits
- NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
- Release Date
- 2020-06-30T21:33:53
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m96/
- 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
- 161.6947508, 11.80703943
- Reference Dimension
- 2048.0, 2048.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1120.330967, 1285.043606
- Scale
- Rotation
- -179.1148234
- 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-m96
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-m96.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:33.900678
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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