A snapshot of the Jewel Box cluster with the ESO VLT
eso_eso0940a October 29th, 2009
Credit: ESO/Y. Beletsky
The FORS1 instrument on the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory was used to take this exquisitely sharp close up view of the colourful Jewel Box cluster, NGC 4755. The telescope’s huge mirror allowed very short exposure times: just 2.6 seconds through a blue filter (B), 1.3 seconds through a yellow/green filter (V) and 1.3 seconds through a red filter (R). The field of view spans about seven arcminutes.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0940a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso0940a
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.4.1
- Subject Name
- Jewel Box, NGC 4755
- Credits
- ESO/Y. Beletsky
- Release Date
- 2009-10-29T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0940a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from NASA.
- 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
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 193.415106847, -60.366797911
- Reference Dimension
- 1280.0, 1283.0
- Reference Pixel
- 687.0, 630.0
- Scale
- -8.51726406653e-05, 8.51726406653e-05
- Rotation
- -1.56993866396
- 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
- eso0940a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0940a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-10-27T18:21:05+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
