Sky around galaxy cluster CL0024+1654 (ground-based image)
This is a 2.5-degree field around galaxy cluster CL0024+1654. The cluster galaxies are visible in the centre of the image in yellow. The image is a colour composite constructed from three Digitized Sky Survey 2 images: Blue (shown in blue), Red (shown in green), and Infrared (shown in red).
Credit:European Space Agency, NASA, Jean-Paul Kneib (Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, France/Caltech, USA) and the Digitized Sky Survey
About the Image
| Id: | heic0309d |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 17 July 2003, 15:00 |
| Related releases: | heic0309 |
| Size: | 4390 x 4399 px |
About the Object
| Name: | ClG 0024+1654 |
| Type: | Early Universe : Galaxy : Grouping : Cluster |
| Distance: | z=0.4 (redshift) |
| Constellation: | Pisces |
| Category: | Cosmology Galaxies |
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Coordinates
| Position (RA): | 0 26 45.20 |
| Position (Dec): | 17° 5' 11.73" |
| Field of view: | 149.30 x 149.61 arcminutes |
| Orientation: | North is 0.4° right of vertical |
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