Description
We have used images from the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope in H{alpha}, and in the neighboring continuum, to produce flux-calibrated images of the large spiral galaxy M51 and the dwarf irregular NGC 4449. From these images, we have derived the absolute luminosities in H{alpha}, the areas, and the positions with respect to the galactic centers as reference points of over 2600 HII regions in M51 and over 270 HII regions in NGC 4449.
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