Wide-field view of the field around NGC 4666
eso_eso1036b September 1st, 2010
Credit: ESO and Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin
This visible light wide-field image of the region around NGC 4666 was created from photographs taken through red and blue filters and forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The galaxy appears close to the centre. The dazzling blue star to the lower-right is the brilliant double star Gamma Virginis. The field of view is approximately three degrees across.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1036b/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1036b
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 4666
- Credits
- ESO and Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin
- Release Date
- 2010-09-01T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1036b/
- 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
- 658, 445
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 191.286306, -0.462044
- Reference Dimension
- 1280.0, 1282.0
- Reference Pixel
- 639.510915351, 642.421033895
- Scale
- -0.00233008656, 0.00233008656
- Rotation
- 0.11183290552
- 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
- eso1036b
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1036b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2010-08-11T15:09:41+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
