NGC 4565
noirlab_noao-n4565hugo April 2nd, 2014
Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Bruce Hugo and Leslie Gaul/Adam Block
NGC 4565 is an excellent example of an edge-on spiral galaxy. If our own galaxy was viewed from this perspective some 49 million light years distant, it would appear very much like this. The dust lane is the obscuring lane of gas and dust that blocks (reddens) the light from the interior. Also notice the dwarf galaxy on the bottom-left of the image. This galaxy is very much like two other notable examples: M104 and NGC 891. 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-n4565hugo/
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-n4565hugo
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- NGC 4565
- Credits
- KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Bruce Hugo and Leslie Gaul/Adam Block
- Release Date
- 2014-04-02T12:37:45
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-n4565hugo/
- 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
- 189.006681483, 26.0150340381
- Reference Dimension
- 2184.0, 1472.0
- Reference Pixel
- 700.356948853, 1269.7782135
- Scale
- -9.47489080037e-05, 9.49996881073e-05
- Rotation
- 107.65541611631
- 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-n4565hugo
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-n4565hugo.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2021-08-30T16:39:44+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
