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.
Credit:
ESO/INAF-VST/OmegaCAM. Acknowledgement: OmegaCen/Astro-WISE/Kapteyn Institute
About the Image
| Id: | eso1126a |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 27 July 2011, 12:00 |
| Related releases: | eso1126 |
| Size: | 15513 x 12558 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Leo Triplet |
| Type: | • Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Interacting • Galaxies |
| Distance: | 35 million light years |
Coordinates
| Position (RA): | 11h 19m 43.51s |
| Position (Dec): | 13° 18' 36.77" |
| Field of view: | 51.72 x 41.86 arcminutes |
| Orientation: | North is 90.0° left of vertical |
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Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
| Optical G |
480 nm | VLT Survey Telescope OmegaCAM |
| Optical R |
625 nm | VLT Survey Telescope OmegaCAM |
| Infrared I |
770 nm | VLT Survey Telescope OmegaCAM |
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