The Omega Nebula
eso_eso0925a July 7th, 2009
Credit: ESO
Three-colour composite image of the Omega Nebula (Messier 17, or NGC 6618), based on images obtained with the EMMI instrument on the ESO 3.58-metre New Technology Telescope at the La Silla Observatory. North is down and East is to the right in the image. It spans an angle equal to about one third the diameter of the Full Moon, corresponding to about 15 light-years at the distance of the Omega Nebula. The three filters used are B (blue), V ("visual", or green) and R (red). #L
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0925a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso0925a
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2 B.4.2.1
- Subject Name
- Messier 17, Omega Nebula
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2009-07-07T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0925a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- New Technology Telescope, New Technology Telescope, New Technology Telescope
- Instrument
- EMMI, EMMI, EMMI
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- B, V, R
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- 2005-06-03T00:00:00, 2017-11-23T00:00:00, 2017-11-23T00:00:00
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 275.196248, -16.172013
- Reference Dimension
- 3069.0, 3069.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1382.63537328, 1458.41755817
- Scale
- -4.653699e-05, 4.653699e-05
- Rotation
- -178.97454401563
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- World Coordinate System resolved using PinpointWCS 0.9.0 revision 214+ by the Chandra X-ray Center
- 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
- eso0925a
- Resource URL
- http://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0925a.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2009-07-06T12:09:48+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
