Hubble image archive
Globular Cluster M15
CreditsNASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
- Date
- Jan 1, 2002
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2002-18-1236-image
Credits
NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)Image Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | M15, NGC 7078 |
| Object Description | Globular Cluster in the Milky Way Galaxy |
| R.A. Position | 21h 29m 58s |
| Dec. Position | +12° 10' 00" |
| Constellation | Pegasus |
| Distance | M15's distance to Earth is about 32,600 light-years (10 kiloparsecs). Its distance to the galactic center of the Milky Way is about 34,000 light-years (10.4 kiloparsecs). |
| Dimensions | The image is about 59 arcseconds (2.8 parsecs or 9.2 light-years) in the horizontal dimension. Mass of the black hole: 4,000 times the mass of the Sun. Mass of the globular cluster: 600,000 times the mass of the Sun |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | WFPC2 Data Principal Astronomers: H. E. Bond (STScI), D. R. Alves (Columbia Astrophysics Lab.), M. Livio, L. K. Fullton and K. G. Schaefer (STScI) STIS Data Principal Astronomers: R. Van Der Marel and J. Gerssen (STScI), K. Gebhardt (U. Texas at Austin), P. Guhathakurta and R. Peterson (UCO/Lick Observatory) and C. Pryor (Rutgers U.) |
| Instrument | HST>WFPC2 and HST>STIS |
| Exposure Dates | December 1998, Exposure Time: 3.7 hours (WFPC2), and October 1999, May-October 2001, Exposure Time: 16 hours (STIS) |
| Filters | WFPC2: F439W (B), F547M (Strömgren y), F502N ([O III]), F656N (H alpha), F814W (I) STIS: G430M |
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