The Trifid Nebula (full frame)
eso_eso0930b August 26th, 2009
Credit: ESO
The massive star factory known as the Trifid Nebula was captured in all its glory with the Wide-Field Imager camera attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in northern Chile. So named for the dark dust bands that trisect its glowing heart, the Trifid Nebula is a rare combination of three nebulae types that reveal the fury of freshly formed stars and point to more star birth in the future. The field of view of the image is approximately 19 x 26 arcminutes. The Trifid Nebula is also known as NGC 6514 and Messier 20.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0930b/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso0930b
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.4.1 B.4.2.1 B.4.2.2
- Subject Name
- M 20, Messier 20, NGC 6514, Trifid Nebula
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2009-08-26T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0930b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from AJ (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008hsf2.book..509R)
- Facility
- MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope
- Instrument
- WFI, WFI, WFI, WFI
- Color Assignment
- Red, Orange, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- R, H-alpha, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 270.539817569, -22.929820663
- Reference Dimension
- 4545.0, 6122.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2272.0, 3061.0
- Scale
- -6.61284233634e-05, 6.61284233634e-05
- Rotation
- -0.079999999999998725
- 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
- eso0930b
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0930b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-08-24T15:06:38+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
