The Orion Nebula*
eso_eso0104a January 17th, 2001
Credit: ESO/M.McCaughrean et al. (AIP)
This photo shows a colour composite mosaic image of the central part of the Orion Nebula, based on 81 images obtained with the infrared multi-mode ISAAC instrument on the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory. The famous Trapezium stars are seen near the centre and the photo also shows the associated cluster of about 1,000 stars, approximately one million years old. This image is available as a mounted image in the ESOshop.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0104a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, 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
- eso0104a
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.4.1 B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- M 42, Messier 42, Orion Nebula
- Credits
- ESO/M.McCaughrean et al. (AIP)
- Release Date
- 2001-01-17T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0104a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- ISAAC, ISAAC, ISAAC
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- K, H, J
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.811506336, -5.38331259103
- Reference Dimension
- 2760.0, 2804.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1459.78125, 1434.35384615
- Scale
- -4.10564651891e-05, 4.10564651891e-05
- Rotation
- -0.015451480759998127
- 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
- eso0104a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0104a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2011-03-16T14:46:54+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
