Digitized sky survey 2 image of NGC 4755
eso_eso0940d October 29th, 2009
Credit: ESO, ESA/Hubble and Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
A wide-field image of the region around NGC 4755 (the Jewel Box) constructed from data from the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The bright star is Mimosa, one of the four stars in the Southern Cross. The darkness towards the bottom of the image is part of the Coal Sack, a vast area of obscuring dust easily visible to the unaided eye. The field of view is approximately 2.8 degrees x 2.9 degrees, or about 40 times the area of the Full Moon.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0940d/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso0940d
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.4
- Subject Name
- NGC 4755
- Credits
- ESO, ESA/Hubble and Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
- Release Date
- 2009-10-29T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0940d/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- None, None, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Instrument
- None, None, None, None
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Red, Blue, Red
- Band
- Optical, Infrared, Optical, Infrared
- Bandpass
- -, -, I, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 193.425507, -60.367004
- Reference Dimension
- 5000.0, 5042.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2466.21736146, 2503.66848181
- Scale
- -0.00057073087, 0.00057073087
- Rotation
- 0.01397296912
- 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
- eso0940d
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0940d.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-10-26T13:48:25+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
