The Fornax Cluster of galaxies
eso_eso0949c December 11th, 2009
Credit: ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA. Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit
The Fornax Galaxy Cluster is one of the closest of such groupings beyond our Local Group of galaxies. This VISTA image was constructed from images taken through Z, J and Ks filters in the near-infrared part of the spectrum and has captured many of the cluster members in a single image. At the lower-right is the elegant barred-spiral galaxy NGC 1365 and to the left the big elliptical NGC 1399, surrounded by a swarm of faint globular clusters. The image is about 1 degree by 1.5 degrees in extent and the total exposure time was 25 minutes.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0949c/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso0949c
- Subject Category
- C.5.5.3
- Subject Name
- Fornax Cluster
- Credits
- ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA. Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit
- Release Date
- 2009-12-11T11:30:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0949c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy
- Instrument
- VIRCAM, VIRCAM, VIRCAM
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- K, J, Z
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 53.927525, -35.753317
- Reference Dimension
- 15427.0, 12549.0
- Reference Pixel
- 8067.04031476, 6174.59786825
- Scale
- -9.466281e-05, 9.466281e-05
- Rotation
- 14.90965428876
- 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
- eso0949c
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0949c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-11-23T13:50:01+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
