Utilizamos cookies propias y de terceros para el correcto funcionamiento del sitio web y mejorar nuestros servicios. Pulse el siguiente botón para aceptar su uso. Puede cambiar la configuración u obtener más información en nuestra Política de cookies.
We use our own and third-party cookies for the correct functioning of the website and to improve our services. Click the following button to accept its use. You can change the settings or obtain more information in our Cookies Policy.
Description: M95 was one of the galaxies in the key project of the
Hubble Space
Telescope for the determination of the Hubble constant: the HST was
employed to look for Cepheid variables and thereby determine this
galaxy's distance.
M95 is a barred spiral of type SBb, or SB(r)ab according to de Vaucouleurs'
classification, with nearly circular arms. Alan Sandage, in the Hubble Atlas of Galaxies, calls it a "typical ringed
galaxy".
Credit: Johan Knapen (ING) and Nik Szymanek.
Date: 2000.
Technical information: Telescopes: 4.2m William Herschel and 1.0m Jacobus Kapteyn Telescopes.
Instruments: INGRID and CCD Camera respectively.
Detectors: Hawaii near-IR array and Site2 CCD.
Filters and exposure times: B, J and Ks.
