Wide-field view of part of the Large Magellanic Cloud and the remarkable double star OGLE-LMC-CEP0227
eso_eso1046b November 24th, 2010
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide de Martin
This wide field view of part of our neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, was created from photographs taken in red and blue light as part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The remarkable double star OGLE-LMC-CEP0227 lies at the centre of the picture, just one of huge numbers of faint stars. Studies of this very rare system have allowed astronomers to measure mass of a Cepheid variable star with unprecedented accuracy. The field of view is approximately 2.8 degrees across.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1046b/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1046b
- Subject Category
- C.3.2.1 C.3.6.1
- Subject Name
- OGLE LMC-CEP-227
- Credits
- ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide de Martin
- Release Date
- 2010-11-24T19:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1046b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance to LMC in light years from ESO.
- Facility
- Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Instrument
- None, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Infrared
- Bandpass
- R, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 73.0746357073, -70.2400587576
- Reference Dimension
- 10040.0, 10632.0
- Reference Pixel
- 5020.0, 5316.0
- Scale
- -0.000279812803862, 0.000279812803862
- Rotation
- -4.6199999999997
- 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
- eso1046b
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1046b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2010-11-19T14:49:56+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
