NGC 6822 Barnard Galaxy
This nearby irregular galaxy contains a myriad of hot blue massive stars and several famous nebulae. NGC 6822 is located approximately 1.6 million light-years from Earth. It is a member of the Local Group of galaxies, which also includes the Andromeda Galaxy and our galaxy, the Milky Way. NGC 6822 was discovered by E.E. Barnard in the early 1880s.
| Observatory: | Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory Cerro Tololo, Chile |
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| Telescope: | CTIO 4-Meter |
| Instrument: | Mosaic II |
| Astronomer: | P. Massey (Lowell Obs.), G. Jacoby, K. Olsen, C. Smith (NOAO/AURA/NSF) & T.A. Rector (NRAO/AUI/NSF) |
| Date of Observation: | 09-01-2000 |
| Filters and Assigned Colors: | U (violet), B (blue), V (green), R (orange), I (red), Hydrogen-Alpha (red) and Oxygen [OIII] (blue) |
| Exposure Times: | 10 minutes each in V, R and I filters, 60 minutes in U, and 25 minutes each in other filters |
| Location of Image: | Sagittarius |
| Field of View: | 35 x 35 arcminutes |
| Orientation: | North is up and East is to the left |
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