A snapshot of the Jewel Box cluster with the ESO VLT
esahubble_heic0913b October 29th, 2009
Credit: ESO
The FORS1 instrument on the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) at ESO's Paranal Observatory was used to take this exquisitely sharp close up view of the colourful Jewel Box cluster, NGC 4755. The telescopes huge mirror allowed very short exposure times: just 2.6 seconds through a blue filter, 1.3 seconds through a yellow/green filter and 1.3 seconds through a red filter. The field of view spans about seven arcminutes.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0913b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- heic0913b
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.4.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 4755
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2009-10-29T10:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0913b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope (VLT), Very Large Telescope (VLT), Very Large Telescope (VLT)
- Instrument
- FORS1, FORS1, FORS1
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- B, V, R
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 193.423121194, -60.3659387797
- Reference Dimension
- 1563.0, 1567.0
- Reference Pixel
- 781.5, 783.5
- Scale
- -6.99587810427e-05, 6.99587810427e-05
- Rotation
- -0.019999999999999993
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic0913b
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0913b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-10-27T18:21:05+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
