| ING Media Archival Record | | ITEM REFERENCE | 1933 | | PERMANENT LINK | https://astro.ing.iac.es/outreach/?1933 | | EXTACCESS | yes | | TYPE2 | Image archive | | TITLE | M101 galaxy | | KEYWORDS | Galaxies;Galaxies;Messier | | DATE | 1998-01-01 | | ABSTRACT | M101 galaxy, the Pinwheel galaxy. M101 is one of the most prominent Grand Design spirals in the sky. While quite symmetric visually, it is of remarkable unsymmetry, its core being considerably displaced from the center of the disk. Halton Arp has included M101 as No. 26 in his Catalogue of Peculiar Galaxies as a Spiral with One Heavy Arm. The picture was produced by composing three, two-minute, exposures taken through R, V and B Harris photometric filters, approximating the normal red, green and blue passbands. The area shown is approximately 30x30 arc minutes, i.e. the full field of the Wide-Field Camera CCD mosaic at the prime-focus of the Isaac Newton Telescope. | | CREDIT | Peter Bunclark (IoA). | | TELESCOPE | INT | | INSTRUMENT | WFC | | THUMB_75 | 
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