Outskirts of NGC 300
eso_eso0221h August 7th, 2002
Credit: ESO
This is an astronomers' joy ride to infinity. Such a rarely seen view of our universe imparts a feeling of the vast distances in space. In the upper half of the image, the outer region of NGC 300 is resolved into innumerable stars, while in the lower half, myriads of galaxies — a thousand times more distant — catch the eye. In reality, many of them are very similar to NGC 300, they are just much more remote.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0221h/
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
- eso0221h
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 300
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2002-08-07T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0221h/
- 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
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 13.7547543154, -37.8389387797
- Reference Dimension
- 1280.0, 1015.0
- Reference Pixel
- 691.0, 500.0
- Scale
- -0.000126030949442, 0.000126030949442
- Rotation
- -1.57140637133
- 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
- eso0221h
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0221h.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-01-07T16:24:44+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
