NGC 536: Hickson 10
noirlab_noao-n536white February 25th, 2014
Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Gary White and Verlenne Monroe/Adam Block
This group of four galaxies is around 220 million light years away. The collection of spiral galaxies on the left side of the image include: (from top to bottom) NGC 542, NGC 536 and NGC 531. The warped arms of the latter two galaxies strongly suggests they are interacting with one another. NGC 529 on the right side of the image is a bright lenticular galaxy. This galaxy probably used to be a spiral like its neighbors, but either due to gravitational interactions or a lack of material to form more stars has relaxed to this smooth almost elliptical (but not quite) like state. 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-n536white/
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-n536white
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- NGC 536
- Credits
- KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Gary White and Verlenne Monroe/Adam Block
- Release Date
- 2014-02-25T11:52:08
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-n536white/
- 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
- 21.4618282743, 34.7506150295
- Reference Dimension
- 1282.0, 874.0
- Reference Pixel
- 327.295999527, 263.960929871
- Scale
- -0.000156786214763, 0.000156730931039
- Rotation
- 179.55974845629
- 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-n536white
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-n536white.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2021-09-15T16:08:14-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
