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November 18, 2010 09:00 AM (EST)

News Release Number: STScI-2010-38

Hubble Captures New Life in an Ancient Galaxy

Technical facts about this news release:

About the Object

Object Name:	NGC 4150
Object Description:	Elliptical Galaxy
Position (J2000):	R.A. 12h10m 33s.65 Dec. 30° 24' 05".51
Constellation:	Coma Berenices
Distance:	The distance to NGC 4150 is 44 million light-years (13.5 megaparsecs).

About the Data

Data Description:	This image was created from HST data from proposal 11360: R.M. Crockett (University of Oxford, U.K.).
Instrument:	WFC3
Exposure Date(s):	October 30, 2009, and November 9, 2009
Exposure Time:	3.8 hours
Filters:	F225W (UV), F438W (B), F555W (V), F657N (H-alpha), and F814W (I)

About the Release

Credit:

NASA, ESA, R.M. Crockett (University of Oxford, U.K.), S. Kaviraj (Imperial College London and University of Oxford, U.K.), J. Silk (University of Oxford), M. Mutchler (STScI), R. O'Connell (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), and the WFC3 Scientific Oversight Committee

Release Date:

November 18, 2010

Color:

This image is a composite of separate exposures acquired by the WFC3 instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope (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 as follows:

NGC 4150 Wide-field
F814W (I)	red
F555W (V)	green
F438W (B)	blue

NGC 4150 Inset/Nucleus
F657N (H-alpha)	red
F438W (B)	green
F225W (UV)	blue

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