Object Name:

NGC 2841

Object Description:

Flocculent Spiral Galaxy

Position (J2000):

R.A. 9h 22m 02.64s
Dec. +50° 58' 35.47"

Constellation:

Ursa Major

Distance:

About 46 million light-years (14 million parsecs)

Dimensions:

The image is 2.6 arcminutes (34,000 light-years or 10,500 parsecs) wide.

Data Description:

The image was created from Hubble data from proposal 11360: R. O'Connell (University of Virginia), B. Balick (University of Washington), H. Bond (STScI), D. Calzetti (University of Massachusetts), M. Carollo (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich), M. Disney (University of Wales, College of Cardiff), M. Dopita (Australian National University), J. Frogel (Ohio State University Research Foundation) , D. Hall (University of Hawaii), J. Holtzman (New Mexico State University), P. McCarthy (Carnegie Institution of Washington), F. Paresce (European Southern Observatory, Germany), A. Saha (NOAO/AURA) , J. Silk (University of Oxford), A. Walker (NOAO/CTIO) , B. Whitmore (STScI), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), and E. Young (University of Arizona).

Instrument:

WFC3/UVIS

Filters:

F336W (U), F547M (y), F657N (H-alpha + [N II]), and F814W (I)

Exposure Date:

January 5-7, 2010

Exposure Time:

2 hours

Credit:

Acknowledgments:

Release Date:

February 17, 2010

Orientation/Scale:

This image is a composite of separate exposures acquired by the WFC3 instrument on HST. Several filters were used to sample broad and narrow wavelength ranges. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic (grayscale) image associated with an individual filter. In this case, the assigned colors are:

Orientation/Scale: