NGC 3294
noirlab_noao-n3294steinberg March 27th, 2014
Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Ryan Steinberg and Family/Adam Block
NGC 3294 is a tightly coiled galaxy around 70 million light years away. This galaxy has a small bar in its heart and it is one of many galaxies recently surveyed by astronomers. In the survey, astronomers looked at over 900 different galaxies (NGC 3294 shown here was one) and tried to determine if their shape was caused by their environment. What they found is that barred galaxies seem to form in a variety of environments (with and without the perturbations of neighboring galaxies) . Thus they concluded that barred spiral galaxies probably form due to mechanics in the galaxy itself. 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-n3294steinberg/
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
Color Mapping
- ID
- noao-n3294steinberg
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- NGC 3294
- Credits
- KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Ryan Steinberg and Family/Adam Block
- Release Date
- 2014-03-27T14:07:32
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-n3294steinberg/
- 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
- 159.014753645, 37.2936774892
- Reference Dimension
- 1754.0, 1078.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1200.84649658, 748.182159424
- Scale
- -0.000118074905116, 0.00011889779393
- Rotation
- 87.655409485473
- 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-n3294steinberg
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-n3294steinberg.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2021-08-30T16:36:28+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
