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eso_eso0102a January 10th, 2001
Credit: ESO
This image shows a colour composite of visible and near-infrared images of the dark cloud Barnard 68. It was obtained with the 8.2-m VLT ANTU telescope and the multimode FORS1 instrument in March 1999. At these wavelengths, the small cloud is completely opaque because of the obscuring effect of dust particles in its interior.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0102a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso0102a
- Subject Category
- B.4.2.3.2
- Subject Name
- B 68, Barnard 68
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2001-01-10T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0102a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from NASA.
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- FORS1, FORS1, FORS1
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 768, 557, 440
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 260.659294, -23.826164
- Reference Dimension
- 4193.0, 4193.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2263.91699695, 2338.09316897
- Scale
- -2.716702e-05, 2.716702e-05
- Rotation
- -0.07145245634
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- 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
- eso0102a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0102a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2023-10-11T09:27:01.593557
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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