File:Open Cluster NGC 188, Caldwell 1.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file (1,280 × 1,280 pixels, file size: 507 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Open star cluster NGC 188 taken with the WIYN 0.9-meter telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory on the night of December 19th 2002 UT.

Summary

[edit]
Description
English: NGC188 is an open star cluster in the constellation Cepheus. With a membership of around 120, it may be the oldest known open cluster, although age estimates have varied from as much as 24 billion years (which some may notice is a bit of an anomaly when compared to the current estimates of the age of the Universe), to as `little' as only five billion years. NGC188 was first noticed by John Herschel before 1833. NGC188's most recent claim to fame is as item number 1 in Patrick Moore's Caldwell list of challenging objects for observers bored with the Messier catalogue. This image was taken with the WIYN 0.9-meter telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory on the night of December 19th 2002 UT. Image size 21.5 arc minutes.
Date
Source https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao0906a/
Author WIYN/NOIRLab/NSF

Licensing

[edit]
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current23:52, 21 October 2023Thumbnail for version as of 23:52, 21 October 20231,280 × 1,280 (507 KB)Kovayashi (talk | contribs)Uploaded a work by WIYN/NOIRLab/NSF from https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao0906a/ with UploadWizard

There are no pages that use this file.

File usage on other wikis

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata