A star seen with the NACO APP

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eso_ann1037a July 1st, 2010

Credit: ESO

Image of a single star as seen with the VLT NACO instrument utilising the Apodising Phase Plate (APP) coronagraph at a wavelength of 4.05 micrometres. On the right-hand side the diffraction rings of the telescope are clearly visible, making the detection of faint sources close to the central star difficult. Without the APP this ring pattern would extend also to the left-hand side of the image, but the APP effectively suppresses the pattern to the left. No exoplanets are observed around this star.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/ann1037a/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Beta Pictoris
Subject - Milky Way
Star > Circumstellar Material > Planetary System

Color Mapping Details Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Pseudocolor VLT (NACO) Infrared (Near-IR) 4.1 µm
Spectrum_base
Pseudocolor
Eso_ann1037a_1280
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ID
ann1037a
Subject Category
B.3.7.1  
Subject Name
Beta Pictoris
Credits
ESO
Release Date
2010-07-01T10:10:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.eso.org/public/images/ann1037a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Very Large Telescope
Instrument
NACO
Color Assignment
Pseudocolor
Band
Infrared
Bandpass
Near-IR
Central Wavelength
4050
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
Reference Pixel
Scale
Rotation
Coordinate System Projection:
Quality
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
European Southern Observatory
URL
http://www.eso.org/
Name
Email
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
European Southern Observatory
Publisher ID
eso
Resource ID
ann1037a
Resource URL
https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/ann1037a.tif
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Metadata Date
2010-06-30T14:32:55+02:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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