File:Spiral galaxy NGC 6946 (noao-n6946).tiff
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DescriptionSpiral galaxy NGC 6946 (noao-n6946).tiff |
English: This is a two-minute exposure taken on the night of September 26th 1994 (UT of observation 27/09/94:06:30) with the 1k detector. This photograph shows a region 200 arc seconds square. The brightness of the image has been converted to color (a technique called pseudo-color) using a simple orange/red-shading-to-white transformation, purely to make a more attractive picture. Sky conditions during this phase of the commissioning were not ideal, and this image has a "seeing" measurement (average FWHM of several stars) of over 1.1 arc seconds. About this object NGC 6946 (Arp 29) is a face-on SAB(rs)cd galaxy in the constellation Cygnus. This classification refers to the presence of a small core with multiple well-defined arms (cd), with a poorly-developed bar across the middle (AB) and an inner confused ring (rs). Nearly twenty million light-years from Earth, it is over seventy thousand light-years across and more than fills this picture. At least one supernova has been observed in this galaxy. Location: 20 33.8 +59 59 (1950.0) |
Date | 30 June 2020, 21:33:00 (upload date) |
Source | Spiral galaxy NGC 6946 |
Author | WIYN/NOIRLab/NSF |
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Image title | This is a two-minute exposure taken on the night of September 26th 1994 (UT of observation 27/09/94:06:30) with the 1k detector. This photograph shows a region 200 arc seconds square. The brightness of the image has been converted to color (a technique called pseudo-color) using a simple orange/red-shading-to-white transformation, purely to make a more attractive picture. Sky conditions during this phase of the commissioning were not ideal, and this image has a "seeing" measurement (average FWHM of several stars) of over 1.1 arc seconds. About this object NGC 6946 (Arp 29) is a face-on SAB(rs)cd galaxy in the constellation Cygnus. This classification refers to the presence of a small core with multiple well-defined arms (cd), with a poorly-developed bar across the middle (AB) and an inner confused ring (rs). Nearly twenty million light-years from Earth, it is over seventy thousand light-years across and more than fills this picture. At least one supernova has been observed in this galaxy. Location: 20 33.8 +59 59 (1950.0) |
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Width | 1,024 px |
Height | 1,024 px |
Bits per component | 8 |
Compression scheme | Uncompressed |
Pixel composition | Black and white (Black is 0) |
Orientation | Normal |
Number of components | 1 |
Number of rows per strip | 8 |
Horizontal resolution | 72 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 72 dpi |
Data arrangement | chunky format |
Software used | ImageMagick 5.5.1 10/20/02 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org |