Subaru Gallery

26 million light-years

Color composite image of the spiral galaxy NGC 3521 taken by upgraded MOIRCS and processed by Ichi Tanaka. The field of view is 4 arcminutes x 7 arcminutes. The integration time was 5.3 minutes, 4 minutes and 7.1 minutes for J, H, and Ks band, respectively on the night of December 26, 2015. Unfortunately the seeing was very bad at that night at 1.3 arcseconds. Much better seeing in the usual, good condition should prove much sharper imaging capability of MOIRCS on the Subaru Telescope. (Credit: NAOJ)