Wolf–Lundmark–Melotte (WLM) Irregular Galaxy
noirlab_noao-wlm June 30th, 2020
Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/CTIO/Local Group Survey Team and T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage)
This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic II camera on the Blanco 4-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory. Wolf–Lundmark–Melotte (WLM) is an irregular galaxy located on the outer edges of the Local Group. WLM is about ten times smaller than our own galaxy, the Milky Way. This image was made using data from the Local Group Survey. The image was generated with observations in U (violet), B (blue), V (cyan), I (orange) and H-alpha (red) filters. In this image, North is up, East is left.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-wlm/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noao-wlm
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- WLM
- Credits
- NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/CTIO/Local Group Survey Team and T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage)
- Release Date
- 2020-06-30T21:34:01
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-wlm/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope
- Instrument
- Mosaic II, Mosaic II, Mosaic II, Mosaic II, Mosaic II
- Color Assignment
- Red, Orange, Cyan, Blue, Purple
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Ha, I, V, B, U
- Central Wavelength
- 656, 805, 537, 436, 357
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 0.3366198432, -15.45508161
- Reference Dimension
- 6330.0, 6449.0
- Reference Pixel
- 5191.19873, 3443.367706
- Scale
- -7.5e-05, 7.5e-05
- Rotation
- 179.9926141
- 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-wlm
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-wlm.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2021-11-24T09:15:33.763071
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
