M31, The Andromeda Galaxy

Image Credit: Robert Gendler / HSC Collaboration / Kavli IPMU / NAOJ / DSS / HLA

Composite Image from Multiple Data Sources

8.2 Meter Subaru Telescope (NAOJ), Digitized Sky Survey, Hubble Legacy Archive

Image Processing : Robert Gendler

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The image was made using "first light" data from the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC).

Image data courtesy "Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU)"

The press release for the original image release is here

Full size image is 2.6 GB (34200 X 27108)

 

The Digitized Sky Surveys were produced at the Space Telescope Science Institute under U.S. Government grant NAG W-2166. The images of these surveys are based on photographic data obtained using the Oschin Schmidt Telescope on Palomar Mountain and the UK Schmidt Telescope. The plates were processed into the present compressed digital form with the permission of these institutions.

The National Geographic Society - Palomar Observatory Sky Atlas (POSS-I) was made by the California Institute of Technology with grants from the National Geographic Society.

The Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II) was made by the California Institute of Technology with funds from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, the Sloan Foundation, the Samuel Oschin Foundation, and the Eastman Kodak Corporation.

The Oschin Schmidt Telescope is operated by the California Institute of Technology and Palomar Observatory.

The UK Schmidt Telescope was operated by the Royal Observatory Edinburgh, with funding from the UK Science and Engineering Research Council (later the UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council), until 1988 June, and thereafter by the Anglo-Australian Observatory. The blue plates of the southern Sky Atlas and its Equatorial Extension (together known as the SERC-J), as well as the Equatorial Red (ER), and the Second Epoch [red] Survey (SES) were all taken with the UK Schmidt.

All data are subject to the copyright given in the copyright summary. Copyright information specific to individual plates is provided in the downloaded FITS headers.

Supplemental funding for sky-survey work at the ST ScI is provided by the European Southern Observatory.

 

 

 

 

 

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