The irregular galaxy NGC 1427A

Eso_eso0627c_1024

eso_eso0627c July 26th, 2006

Credit: ESO

Colour composite image of NGC 1427A, based on observations collected with FORS1 in Service mode for Andreas Reisenegger and his colleagues in November 2002 and January 2003. A very tenuous galaxy is also visible in the upper right corner. For the blue, green and red channels the U, V and H-alpha filters were used, respectively. North is on the left and West is up. The entire field of view of this image is ~ 6.7 x 6.7 arcmin which corresponds to ~ 120 x 120 thousand light-years at the Fornax Cluster distance. Henri Boffin (ESO) did the final processing of the image.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0627c/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
NGC 1427A
Subject - Local Universe
Galaxy > Type > Irregular
Eso_eso0627c_128
 

Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 3h 40m 8.5s
DEC = -35° 37’ 5.9”
Orientation
North is 90.1° CCW
Field of View
6.2 x 5.9 arcminutes
Constellation
Eridanus

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Red VLT (FORS1) Optical (H-alpha) -
Green VLT (FORS1) Optical (V) -
Blue VLT (FORS1) Ultraviolet (U) -
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ID
eso0627c
Subject Category
C.5.1.6  
Subject Name
NGC 1427A
Credits
ESO
Release Date
2006-07-26T00:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0627c/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Distance in light years from NED
Facility
Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
Instrument
FORS1, FORS1, FORS1
Color Assignment
Red, Green, Blue
Band
Optical, Optical, Ultraviolet
Bandpass
H-alpha, V, U
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
55.0355309437, -35.6183001593
Reference Dimension
1280.0, 1213.0
Reference Pixel
683.0, 595.0
Scale
-8.06300747619e-05, 8.06300747619e-05
Rotation
90.14153486099994
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
European Southern Observatory
URL
http://www.eso.org/
Name
Email
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
eso0627c
Metadata Date
2009-01-07T16:28:30+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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