| ING Media Archival Record |
| ITEM REFERENCE | 1924 |
| PERMANENT LINK | https://astro.ing.iac.es/outreach/?1924 |
| EXTACCESS | yes |
| COLLECTION | Image archive |
| TITLE | M51 |
| KEYWORDS | Galaxies;Galaxies;High-quality images;Messier |
| DATE | 2000-06-01 |
| DESCRIPTION | M51 galaxy, known as The Whirlpool Galaxy, is a bright spiral galaxy fairly close to us (7.5 Megaparsecs = 25 million light years). To the north of M51, at the bottom of the picture, is a companion galaxy which is being disrupted by the gravitational tidal forces of the main galaxy. True-colour image of M51 using the prime focus camera on the WHT. Filter B is blue, filter V is green and filter R is red. Exposure time was 300s in each band. PDF versions: https://www.ing.iac.es/PR/dissemination/M51.pdf, http://www.ing.iac.es/PR/dissemination/m51_poster.pdf |
| CREDIT | Javier Mendez (ING) and Simon Tulloch (ING). |
| TELESCOPE | WHT |
| INSTRUMENT | PFIP |
| THUMB_200 | 
https://www.ing.iac.es/PR/science/m51_v3s.jpg |
| AVAILABLE FILES | JPG (288K) 800×1116 pixels
TIF (16.3M) 2480×3461 pixels |
| TIMESTAMP | 2024-09-01 20:48:35 |
| USAGE | For publication or display (electronic or otherwise), all photos, images or videos must be credited: "Photo/image/video courtesy of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, La Palma" unless otherwise noted in the provided credit line. Please contact ING's Public Relations Officer (outreach  ing.iac.es) with all the details of the use. |
