Asteroid Toutatis with the VLT
eso_eso0430a September 29th, 2004
Credit: ESO
The telescope was set to follow the predicted motion of the asteroid during 60 seconds (beginning on September 28, 2004, 23:34 hrs UT) and the images of the background stars in the sky field therefore appear as long trails.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0430a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso0430a
- Subject Category
- A.2.3
- Subject Name
- 4179 Toutatis
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2004-09-29T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0430a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- FORS1
- Color Assignment
- Grayscale
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- T
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 1961.0, 1961.0
- 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
- eso0430a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0430a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2016-07-19T08:44:11+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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