Date: 24 Sep 2003
Depicts: NGC 3982
Copyright: Image credit: European Space Agency and Stephen Smartt (University of Cambridge)

This colour image is composed of three different exposures with Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 through a wide blue filter (450 seconds), a wide green filter (55000 seconds) and a wide red filter (25000 seconds)

The team is composed of Stephen J. Smartt, Justyn R. Maund, Gerry F. Gilmore (all University of Cambridge) and John Danziger (Trieste Observatory).

Image credit: European Space Agency and Stephen Smartt (University of Cambridge)

The composite image was constructed with data from the ESO/ST-ECF Science Archive. Additional Hubble exposures were obtained by A. Saha (National Optical Astronomy Observatories), L. Labhardt (Universität Basel), F. Macchetto, N. Panagia (both Space Telescope Science Institute) A. Sandage (Carnegie Institution of Washington) and G. Tammann (Universität Basel).