Wide-field view of part of the Large Magellanic Cloud
eso_eso1021c June 1st, 2010
Credit: ESO, Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
This wide-field view shows a section of the Large Magellanic Cloud, centred on the unusual globular cluster NGC 1978. 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/eso1021c/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1021c
- Subject Category
- C.3.6.4.2
- Subject Name
- LMC, NGC 1978
- Credits
- ESO, Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
- Release Date
- 2010-06-01T16:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1021c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from ESO.
- Facility
- Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Instrument
- None, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- R, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 82.5885400498, -66.2117950777
- Reference Dimension
- 1280.0, 1007.0
- Reference Pixel
- 624.0, 537.0
- Scale
- -0.00333660537615, 0.00333660537615
- Rotation
- 0
- 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
- eso1021c
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1021c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2010-05-25T15:17:15+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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