World’s most powerful digital camera opens eye, records first images in hunt for dark energy
Zoomed-in image from the Dark Energy Camera of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365, in the Fornax cluster of galaxies, which lies about 60 million light years from Earth.
Credit:Dark Energy Survey Collaboration
About the Image
Id: | noao1204b |
Type: | Observation |
Release date: | Sept. 17, 2012 |
Related releases: | noao1204 |
Size: | 2013 x 1363 px |
About the Object
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Coordinates
Position (RA): | 3 33 36.56 |
Position (Dec): | -36° 8' 27.34" |
Field of view: | 8.79 x 5.95 arcminutes |
Orientation: | North is 90.2° right of vertical |
Colors & filters
Band | Wave-length | Tele-scope |
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Optical G | 474 nm | Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope DECam |
Optical R | 644 nm | Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope DECam |
Infrared I | 785 nm | Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope DECam |