The Lynx arc

Using Hubble Space Telescope images to provide spatial resolution and groundbased images to provide the colour. A combination using Photoshop made in 2002.

This post is primarily about the colourising technique but you can see the paper at:

adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003ApJ...596..797F

The luminosity distance is 5.68 × 10^(23) miles if anyone is interested...

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