Cosmic spider: the Tarantula Nebula
eso_eso0613a April 7th, 2006
Credit: ESO
Three-colour image of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The image is based on observations made on 10 February 2002 and 22 March 2003 with the FORS1 multi-mode instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope in three different narrow-band filters (centred on 485 nm, 503 nm, and 657 nm), for a total exposure time slightly above 3 minutes only. The data were extracted from the ESO Science Archive and processed by Henri Boffin (ESO).
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0613a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso0613a
- Subject Category
- C.4
- Subject Name
- 30 Doradus, Large Magellanic Cloud, LMC, NGC 2070, Tarantula Nebula
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2006-04-07T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0613a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Approximate distance in light years from AJ (http://iopscience.iop.org/0067-0049/191/1/160/fulltext)
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- FORS1, FORS1, FORS1
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- R, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 657, 503, 485
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 84.658276, -69.094909
- Reference Dimension
- 2046.0, 2042.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1130.46974969, 1120.35884519
- Scale
- -5.522865e-05, 5.522865e-05
- Rotation
- 0.14593860691
- 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
- eso0613a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0613a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2007-08-08T11:59:04+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
