M3
noirlab_noao-m3schock June 24th, 2014
Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Michael Schock/Flynn Haase
This ball of 500,000 stars is approximately 100 light years across. From a galactic perspective, this cluster is passing over our heads (galactic north) and is one of the first bright clusters to become available before the others closer to the galactic center. Some people believe that this cluster inspired Charles Messier to begin systematically recording the location of deep sky objects that through his telescope appeared as nebulous. Charles Messier was interested in finding comets and considered these non-comet fuzzies to be a bit of a distraction. Even with modest equipment today, the true nature of these objects are easily revealed. 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-m3schock/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- ID
- noao-m3schock
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- M3
- Credits
- KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Michael Schock/Flynn Haase
- Release Date
- 2014-06-24T08:35:29
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m3schock/
- 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
- Instrument
- Other CCD, Other CCD, Other CCD
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- B, G, R
- Central Wavelength
- 438, 475, 625
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 205.398985061, 28.3366858054
- Reference Dimension
- 1800.0, 1263.0
- Reference Pixel
- 200.090110779, 567.254600525
- Scale
- -0.000194035095197, 0.000193859362878
- Rotation
- -157.18138046404
- 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-m3schock
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-m3schock.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2021-08-30T18:02:04+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
