AAS 195th Meeting, January 2000
Session 8. Dwarf, Irregular and Starburst Galaxies
Display, Wednesday, January 12, 2000, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

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[8.14] WFPC2 Observations of the Draco Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy

K. Mighell (KPNO/NOAO), C. Gomez-Martin (University of South Florida)

We present our preliminary analysis of archival Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 observations in F606W (~V) and F814W (~I) of the Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy. We compare the Draco color-magnitude diagram with fiducial sequences of ancient metal-poor Galactic globular clusters in order to investigate the early star-formation history of this nearby satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.


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