NGC6946

Credits to: Vincenzo Testa and Cristian DeSantis

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This color image of the face-on spiral galaxy, NGC 6946, was taken at LBT on 18 September 2006.  NGC 6946 lies at a distance of about 16 million light years from earth.  The false-color composite was made from images taken through near-ultraviolet, blue, and green filters, using one primary mirror and one Large Binocular Camera (blue optimized).  The total exposure times were 560 secs in U (near ultraviolet), and 400 secs each in B (blue) and V (green), comprised of a stack of 20-second exposures, taken so as not to saturate the brighter stars.  The U, B, V images are displayed in the 3-color composite as blue, green and red respectively.  The image quality shows that commissioning is proceeding as well, with the telescope tracking and camera interfaces approaching the reliability needed for routine scientific observing.

 
   

NGC891

This is a blue image of the edge on spiral galaxy NGC891 taken on 12 October 2005 for the First Light of the Large Binocular Telescope. Click here for more information.

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