The classic spiral Messier 83 seen in the infrared with HAWK-I
eso_eso1020a May 19th, 2010
Credit: ESO/M. Gieles.Acknowledgement: Mischa Schirmer
This image of the nearby galaxy Messier 83 was taken in the infrared part of the spectrum with the HAWK-I instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. The very fine image quality of this camera, coupled with the huge light-collecting power of the VLT, reveals vast numbers of stars within the galaxy. The images were taken in three different parts of the infrared spectrum and the total exposure time was eight and a half hours, split into more than five hundred exposures of one minute each. The field of view is about 13 arcminutes across.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1020a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1020a
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- Messier 83
- Credits
- ESO/M. Gieles.Acknowledgement: Mischa Schirmer
- Release Date
- 2010-05-19T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1020a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- HAWK-I, HAWK-I, HAWK-I
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- K, H, J
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 204.253953, -29.865852
- Reference Dimension
- 4000.0, 4000.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2000.89068141, 2053.13192165
- Scale
- -5.42804e-05, 5.42804e-05
- Rotation
- 0.03823704272
- 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
- eso1020a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1020a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2010-03-09T15:54:56+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
