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ITEM REFERENCE1942
PERMANENT LINKhttps://astro.ing.iac.es/outreach/?1942
EXTACCESSyes
COLLECTIONImage archive
TITLEM95 Galaxy or NGC 3351.
KEYWORDSGalaxies;Galaxies;Messier
DATE2000-01-01
DESCRIPTIONM95 was one of the galaxies in the key project of the Hubble Space Telescope for the determination of the Hubble constant: the HST was employed to look for Cepheid variables and thereby determine this galaxys distance. It is a barred spiral of type SBb, or SB(r)ab according to de Vaucouleurs classification, with nearly circular arms. Alan Sandage, in the Hubble Atlas of Galaxies, calls it a typical ringed galaxy. Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope. B, I, and H-alpha bands.
CREDITJohan Knapen and Nik Szymanek.
TELESCOPEJKT
INSTRUMENTJKTCCD
THUMB_75
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AVAILABLE FILESJPG (86K)
TIF (8.7M)
TIMESTAMP2024-08-30 22:05:22
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