Galaxies

Elliptical Galaxy NGC 4150

November 18, 2010 · NASA · Coma Berenices

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About the colours

This image is a composite of separate exposures acquired by the WFC3 instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Several filters were used to sample broad and narrow wavelength ranges. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic (grayscale) image associated with an individual filter. In this case, the assigned colors are as follows: Red: F814W (I) Green: F555W (V) Blue: F438W (B)

About the data

This image was created from HST data from proposal 11360 : R.M. Crockett (University of Oxford, U.K.).

Facts

Object: NGC 4150
Constellation: Coma Berenices
Distance: The distance to NGC 4150 is 44 million light-years (13.5 megaparsecs).
Released: November 18, 2010
Position: RA 12h 10m 34s · Dec +30° 24′ 06″
Field of view: 2.62′ × 1.68′
Instrument: HST>WFC3/UVIS
Filters: F225W (UV), F438W (B), F555W (V), F657N (H-alpha), and F814W (I)
Observed: October 30, 2009, and November 9, 2009, Exposure Time: 3.8 hours
Image size: 3,980 × 2,549 px
Category: Galaxies
Source: NASA + ESA/Hubble

Credit

NASA , ESA , R.M. Crockett (University of Oxford, U.K.), S. Kaviraj (Imperial College London and University of Oxford, U.K.), J. Silk (University of Oxford)…