The irregular galaxy NGC 1427A

Colour composite image of NGC 1427A, based on observations collected with FORS1 in Service mode for Andreas Reisenegger and his colleagues in November 2002 and January 2003. A very tenuous galaxy is also visible in the upper right corner. For the blue, green and red channels the U, V and H-alpha filters were used, respectively. North is on the left and West is up. The entire field of view of this image is ~ 6.7 x 6.7 arcmin which corresponds to ~ 120 x 120 thousand light-years at the Fornax Cluster distance. Henri Boffin (ESO) did the final processing of the image.

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Über das Bild

ID:eso0627c
Typ:Beobachtung
Veröffentlichungsdatum:26. Juli 2006
Dazugehörige Veröffentlichungen:eso0627
Größe:1953 x 1851 px

Über das Objekt

Name:NGC 1427A
Typ:Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Irregular
Entfernung:50 Million Lichtjahre
Constellation:Eridanus
Kategorie:Galaxies

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Koordinaten

Position (RA):3 40 8.53
Position (Dec):-35° 37' 5.88"
Field of view:6.19 x 5.87 arcminutes
Orientierung:Die Nordrichtung liegt 90.1° links zur Vertikale

Farben & Filter

SpektralbereichTeleskop
Ultraviolett
U
Very Large Telescope
FORS1
Optisch
V
Very Large Telescope
FORS1
Optisch
H-alpha
Very Large Telescope
FORS1