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About the Object	Object Name: Centaurus A Object Type: Elliptical Galaxy Position (J2000): RA: 13h25m42.09s Dec: -42d53m59.5s Distance: 3.4 Mpc or 11,000,000 light-years Magnitude: 7.0 Constellation: Centaurus
About the Data	Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/J. Keene (SSC/Caltech) Instrument: IRAC Exposure Date: 10 Feb 2004 Exposure Time: about 60 seconds Image Scale: 27.1 x 17.7 arcmin Orientation: North is Up Release Date 01 June 2004
Observers	Jocelyn Keene, Principal Investigator (JPL & SSC) Peter Eisenhardt (JPL) Varoujan Gorjian (JPL) Charles Lawrence (JPL) Alice Quillen (University of Rochester) Karl Stapelfeldt (JPL) Daniel Stern (JPL) Michael Werner (JPL)

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