Comet Hale-Bopp, at a distance of nearly 2,000 million kilometres from the Sun
eso_eso0108a March 6th, 2001
Credit: ESO
Comet Hale-Bopp, still active at a distance of nearly 2,000 million kilometres from the Sun. The photo is a colour composite of several exposures in different wavebands, obtained with the Wide-Field Imager (WFI) camera at the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at the La Silla Observatory. Despite the very large distance from the Sun, the comet is still "active" — it continues to lose material, as demonstrated by the curved jet, and also possesses an enormous coma. The broad, fan-shaped extension in the tail direction (to the upper left) measures at least 2 million kilometres.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0108a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- eso0108a
- Subject Category
- A.2.2
- Subject Name
- Comet Hale-Bopp
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2001-03-06T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0108a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope
- Instrument
- WFI, WFI, WFI
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- R, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 2826.0, 1928.0
- 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
- eso0108a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0108a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-01-20T10:48:31+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
