Cut Images

• by Ganymede12

  This is by far one of the most stunning Galaxy's I have come across in Galaxy Zoo and yet most of the image appears to have been "cut" out. Why is that?

  Posted October 8, 2012 9:11 PM

• by Starsheriff

  i dont know why its cut. But the Picture is not about the bright spiral Galaxy. It is centered on a blue bulk in a part of a Spiral arm. Check out the SkyServer links, i hope they´ll will work: http://skyserver.sdss3.org/dr8/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=1237668589723910207
  or here can you see the full shape of the Galaxy:
  http://skyserver.sdss3.org/dr8/en/tools/chart/navi.asp?ra=187.11132127&dec=17.08393478

  Posted October 8, 2012 9:51 PM

• by Starsheriff

  PS: at the secound link you have to click "get image" on the left side to see the pic. cheers

  Posted October 8, 2012 9:53 PM

• by Starsheriff

  PPS: And some more Info (i got too much time) It´s the NGC 4450, check out: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_4450

  Posted October 8, 2012 10:35 PM

• by zutopian

  I use #blankpart when posting such images.
  klmasters from the science team informed about the reason in another discussion.:

  It's related to how we made the images by cutting them out of larger atlas images, instead of using the (slightly lower quality) postage stamps. This was near the edge of an atlas images, so ended up getting cut off.

  Posted October 9, 2012 9:50 AM

• by elizabeth_s

  cool if cut off so to speak NGC 4450

  Posted October 9, 2012 10:33 AM