VST’s view of the Leo Triplet and beyond

Triplet of bright galaxies in the constellation of Leo (The Lion), together with a multitude of fainter objects: distant background galaxies and much closer Milky Way stars. The image hints at the power of the VST and OmegaCAM for surveying the extragalactic Universe and for mapping the low brightness objects of the galactic halo. This image is a composite created by combining exposures taken through three different filters. Light that passed through a near-infrared filter was coloured red, light in the red part of the spectrum is coloured green, and green light is coloured magenta.

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ESO/INAF-VST/OmegaCAM. Acknowledgement: OmegaCen/Astro-WISE/Kapteyn Institute

Über das Bild

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Typ:Beobachtung
Veröffentlichungsdatum:27. Juli 2011 12:00
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Über das Objekt

Name:Leo Triplet
Typ:Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Interacting
Entfernung:35 Million Lichtjahre
Constellation:Leo
Kategorie:Galaxies

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Koordinaten

Position (RA):11 19 43.51
Position (Dec):13° 18' 36.77"
Field of view:51.72 x 41.86 arcminutes
Orientierung:Die Nordrichtung liegt 90.0° links zur Vertikale

Farben & Filter

SpektralbereichWellenlängeTeleskop
Optisch
G
480 nmVLT Survey Telescope
OmegaCAM
Optisch
R
625 nmVLT Survey Telescope
OmegaCAM
Infrarot
I
770 nmVLT Survey Telescope
OmegaCAM