The globular cluster Omega Centauri*
eso_eso0844a December 2nd, 2008
Credit: ESO
The globular cluster Omega Centauri — with as many as ten million stars — is seen in all its splendour in this image captured with the WFI camera from ESO's La Silla Observatory. The image shows only the central part of the cluster — about the size of the full moon on the sky (half a degree). North is up, East is to the left. This colour image is a composite of B, V and I filtered images. Note that because WFI is equipped with a mosaic detector, there are two small gaps in the image which were filled with lower quality data from the Digitized Sky Survey. Can you find them? NGC 5139 is another designation of this cluster.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0844a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso0844a
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.4.2
- Subject Name
- NGC 5139, Omega Centauri
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2008-12-02T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0844a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from ESO
- 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, Infrared
- Bandpass
- I, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 783, 539, 451
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- I
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 201.697148, -47.479684
- Reference Dimension
- 1280.0, 1204.0
- Reference Pixel
- 620.447024342, 636.048276073
- Scale
- -0.00041507559, 0.00041507559
- Rotation
- -0.00724264734
- 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
- eso0844a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0844a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2011-03-16T14:29:31+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
