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ITEM REFERENCE1935
PERMANENT LINKhttps://astro.ing.iac.es/outreach/?1935
EXTACCESSyes
TYPE2Image archive
TITLEM101 galaxy
KEYWORDSGalaxies;Galaxies;Messier
DATE2005-01-01
ABSTRACTM101 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 image was done with H-alpha, B, R, V filters. Exposure times 50 seconds in each broad band, and around 4 minutes in H-alpha. H-alpha and R are given red, B blue and V green.
CREDITJames Furness (ING).
TELESCOPEINT
INSTRUMENTWFC
THUMB_75
https://www.ing.iac.es/PR/science/m101jfss.jpg
FILESJPG (12.3M) 4438×2339 pixels
JPG (84K) 1200×999 pixels
TIMESTAMP2024-08-30 21:25:08
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