Merope in the Pleiades
noirlab_noao0315b November 12th, 2003
Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
The star Merope, in the familiar object the Pleiades, in a three-color composite image obtained with the Burrell Schmidt telescope of Case Western Reserve University's Warner and Swasey Observatory. The images were taken in January of 1997. The Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier object 45, and Subaru in Japanese (check the logo on the cars of the same name), is one of the more prominent naked eye objects in the sky and, as such, has been known since antiquity, including three mentions in the bible. The Pleiades are embedded in a blue reflection nebula, clearly visible around Merope in this image.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao0315b/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noao0315b
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- Merope, Pleiades
- Credits
- NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
- Release Date
- 2003-11-12T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao0315b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Burrell Schmidt Telescope
- Instrument
- None
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- None
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 56.5218885, 23.97328441
- Reference Dimension
- 1024.0, 1024.0
- Reference Pixel
- 707.0380592, 616.1149368
- Scale
- -0.000281, 0.000282
- Rotation
- 2.357958686
- 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
- noao0315b
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao0315b.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:32.807799
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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