The Lynx Cluster (ground-based view, Kitt Peak)
This ground-based view shows a 0.09 x 0.07 degree field around the Lynx cluster of galaxies (the yellow galaxies above and to the left of the centre). The Lynx Arc is visible as a red object. This image was composed from six ground-based images (BRIzJK) from the blue to the infrared taken with the Mayall 4-m Telescope at NOAO's Kitt Peak Observatory in Arizona, USA. The frame shows the outline of the Hubble Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2image.
Credit:European Space Agency, NASA, Robert A.E. Fosbury (European Space Agency/Space Telescope-European Coordinating Facility, Germany) and NOAO
About the Image
| Id: | heic0312c |
| Type: | Collage |
| Release date: | 30 October 2003, 15:00 |
| Related releases: | heic0312 |
| Size: | 1972 x 1540 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Lynx Cluster |
| Type: | Early Universe : Galaxy : Grouping : Cluster |
| Distance: | z=3.356 (redshift) |
| Category: | Galaxies |
Colours & filters
| Band | Telescope |
|---|---|
| Optical B | Mayall 4-m Telescope |
| Optical R | Mayall 4-m Telescope |
| Infrared I | Mayall 4-m Telescope |
| Infrared Z | Mayall 4-m Telescope |
| Infrared J | Mayall 4-m Telescope |
| Infrared K | Mayall 4-m Telescope |