HAWK-I image of NGC 1232

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eso_eso1042g October 27th, 2010

Credit: ESO/P. Grosbøl

NGC 1232 is a spiral galaxy some 65 million light-years away in the constellation of Eridanus (the River). The galaxy is classified as an intermediate spiral galaxy — somewhere between a barred and an unbarred spiral galaxy. An image of this galaxy and its small companion galaxy NGC 1232A in visible light was one of the first produced by ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). HAWK-I has now returned to NGC 1232 to show a different view of it at near-infrared wavelengths. HAWK-I is one of the most powerful infrared imagers in the world, and this is one of the sharpest and most detailed pictures of this galaxy ever taken from Earth. The filters used were Y (shown in blue), J (in green), H (in muddy brown), and K (in red). The field of view of the image is about 6.4 arcminutes.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1042g/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
NGC 1232
Subject - Local Universe
Galaxy > Type > Spiral
Eso_eso1042g_128
 

Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 3h 9m 45.5s
DEC = -20° 34’ 45.7”
Orientation
North is 0.2° CCW
Field of View
6.5 x 6.5 arcminutes
Constellation
Eridanus

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Orange VLT (HAWK-I) Infrared (H) 1.6 µm
Green VLT (HAWK-I) Infrared (J) 1.2 µm
Blue VLT (HAWK-I) Infrared (Y) 1.0 µm
Spectrum_base
Orange
Green
Blue
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ID
eso1042g
Subject Category
C.5.1.1  
Subject Name
NGC 1232
Credits
ESO/P. Grosbøl
Release Date
2010-10-27T12:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1042g/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Approximate distance in light years from ESO.
Facility
Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
Instrument
HAWK-I, HAWK-I, HAWK-I
Color Assignment
Orange, Green, Blue
Band
Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
Bandpass
H, J, Y
Central Wavelength
1630, 1220, 1020
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
47.439497, -20.579348
Reference Dimension
3644.0, 3638.0
Reference Pixel
1850.0846019, 1857.80582278
Scale
-2.967996e-05, 2.967996e-05
Rotation
0.16491890463
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
European Southern Observatory
URL
http://www.eso.org/
Name
Email
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
eso1042g
Metadata Date
2010-10-19T11:36:58+02:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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