M25 as taken from the Kitt Peak National Observatory. This picture is a combination of six
frames taken in the BVR pass-bands in June 1996 at the Burrell Schmidt telescope of Case
Western Reserve University's Warner and Swasey Observatory located on Kitt Peak, near
Tucson, Arizona, during the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program. Image
size is 42.3 arc minutes square.
Credit: Hillary Mathis, Vanessa Harvey, REU program/NOAO/AURA/NSF
IR image of open cluster Messier 25, taken with the 2MASS IR telescopes. This is a false-color IR image coding different IR wavelength bands into colors, with coolest/longest red and "hottest" or warmest/shortest blue.
Last Modification: November 20, 2002