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About the Object	Object Name: Omega Centauri Object Type: Globular Cluster Position (J2000): RA: 13h 26m 45.89 Dec: -47 28 36.7 Distance: 5.2 kpc = 16,960 light years Constellation: Centaurus
About the Data	Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Boyer (University of Minnesota) Instrument: IRAC and MIPS Exposure Date: IRAC: March 26, 2006, MIPS: Feb 22 & March 02, 2006 Exposure Time: IRAC: 10.4 seconds for individual frames, total average depth of 100 seconds/pixel. MIPS: 10 seconds for individual frames, 670 seconds/pixel average total depth. Release Date: April 10, 2008
Observers	Jacco Th. van Loon (Keele University) Martha L Boyer (University of Minnesota) Iain McDonald (Keele University) Charles Woodward (University of Minnesota) Robert Gehrz (University of Minnesota) Nye Evans (Keele University) Andrea Dupree (Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

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