Planet Beta Pictoris seen with the NACO APP (annotated)
eso_ann1037d July 1st, 2010
Credit: ESO
The planet Beta Pic b imaged at a wavelength of 4.05 micrometres with the VLT’s NACO instrument using the Apodising Phase Plate (APP) coronagraph on 3 April 2010. The “bad” (bright) side of the image is visible to the right while the central bright regions of the central star (Beta Pictoris) have been masked out to enable the viewer to see clearly the planet to the left of the star. At its current projected position the planet is roughly 6.5 AU away from its host star (1 AU being the distance Earth–Sun). The planet’s mass is estimated to be roughly nine times that of Jupiter. This view can be compared with the view with NACO without the APP coronagraph (eso1024a).
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/ann1037d/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
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- ID
- ann1037d
- Subject Category
- B.3.7.1
- Subject Name
- Beta Pictoris
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2010-07-01T10:10:02
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/ann1037d/
- 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
- 2144.0, 1938.0
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- http://www.eso.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
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- ann1037d
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/ann1037d.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2010-06-30T14:33:44+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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