Comet McNaught seen from the ALMA site

Eso_alma-hh-08_1024

eso_alma-hh-08 June 14th, 2010

Credit: ESO

The incomparable view offered by Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught), which reached its perihelion in January 2007, unexpectedly becoming the brightest comet in the previous 40 years. This close-up was taken from the ALMA Operation Support Facility (OSF), located at 2900 m altitude on the road to Chajnantor. ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, is the largest astronomical project in existence, located on the Chilean Andes, some 50 km away from San Pedro de Atacama.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/alma-hh-08/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

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Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Comet McNaught
Subject - Solar System
Interplanetary Body > Comet
Eso_alma-hh-08_1280
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ID
alma-hh-08
Subject Category
A.2.2  
Subject Name
Comet McNaught
Credits
ESO
Release Date
2010-06-14T17:55:34
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.eso.org/public/images/alma-hh-08/
Type
Observation
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N/A
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Coordinate Frame
Equinox
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2912.0, 4368.0
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FITS Header
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Creator (Curator)
European Southern Observatory
URL
http://www.eso.org/
Name
H.H.Heyer
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Address
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City
Garching bei München
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Postal Code
D-85748
Country
Germany
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher
European Southern Observatory
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eso
Resource ID
alma-hh-08
Resource URL
https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/alma-hh-08.tif
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Metadata Date
2023-10-11T09:25:44.136072
Metadata Version
1.1
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