NGC 188, Caldwell 1
noirlab_noao0906a December 21st, 2009
Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
NGC188 is an open star cluster in the constellation Cepheus. With a membership of around 120, it may be the oldest known open cluster, although age estimates have varied from as much as 24 billion years (which some may notice is a bit of an anomaly when compared to the current estimates of the age of the Universe), to as `little' as only five billion years. NGC188 was first noticed by John Herschel before 1833. NGC188's most recent claim to fame is as item number 1 in Patrick Moore's Caldwell list of challenging objects for observers bored with the Messier catalogue. This image was taken with the WIYN 0.9-meter telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory on the night of December 19th 2002 UT. Image size 21.5 arc minutes.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao0906a/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
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Position Details
- ID
- noao0906a
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- Caldwell 1, NGC 188
- Credits
- NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
- Release Date
- 2009-12-21T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao0906a/
- Type
- Observation
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- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 12.55938977, 85.30479164
- Reference Dimension
- 1900.0, 1900.0
- Reference Pixel
- 718.2721405, 1243.861053
- Scale
- -0.000165, 0.000165
- Rotation
- -0.9752683485
- 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
- noao0906a
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao0906a.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:35.916098
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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