The Fornax Cluster Imaged by the Dark Energy Camera
From Jeffrey Carpenter
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From Jeffrey Carpenter
Funded in part by: National Science Foundation Award: ACI-1445176
The Centrality of Advance Dgitally Enabled Science: CADENS
A Color composite of The Fornax Cluster of galaxies as imaged by Dark Energy Camera using the Blanco 4-m telescope in Chile. The center of the cluster is the clump of galaxies in the upper portion of the image. The prominent galaxy in the lower right of the image is the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365.
GRANT: NSF AST 1536171
COMPUTED AT: Blue Waters, Illinois Campus Cluster NCSA
DATA SIZE: 200 MB
DATA RESOLUTION: 15k x 15k (15840 × 15840)
SPATIAL SCALE: 0.5 arc seconds per pixel