The sky around Messier 83

eso_eso1020d May 19th, 2010

Credit: ESO, Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

This wide-field view shows the field around the spiral galaxy Messier 83. The image was created from photographs in red and blue light taken from the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The field of view is 2.9 degrees across.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1020d/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: Messier 83
Subject - Local Universe: Galaxy > Type > Spiral

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 13h 37m 0.9s; DEC = -29° 51’ 56.6”
Orientation: North is 1.3° CCW
Field of View: 3.0 x 2.9 degrees
Constellation: Hydra

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
DSS2 (N/A)	Optical (R)	658.0 nm
DSS2 (N/A)	Optical (B)	445.0 nm

ID: eso1020d
Subject Category: C.5.1.1
Subject Name: Messier 83
Credits: ESO, Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Release Date: 2010-05-19T12:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1020d/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

Facility: Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
Instrument: N/A, N/A
Color Assignment: Red, Blue

Band: Optical, Optical
Bandpass: R, B
Central Wavelength: 658, 445

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Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 204.253949, -29.865712
Reference Dimension: 10640.0, 10359.0

Reference Pixel: 5315.30253872, 5198.84777448
Scale: -0.00027965149, 0.00027965149
Rotation: 1.27587649023
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
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Notes

Creator (Curator): European Southern Observatory
URL: http://www.eso.org/
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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: eso1020d

Resource URL: https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1020d.tif
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Metadata Date: 2010-04-30T17:16:03+02:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

Detailed color mapping information coming soon...

There is no distance meta data in this image.