Wide-field view of the sky around NGC 3582
eso_eso1113c April 13th, 2011
Credit: ESO and Digitized Sky Survey 2.Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin
This visible light wide-field image of the region around NGC 3582 was created from photographs taken through red and blue filters and forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The star formation region appears close to the centre and is just one part of a vast complex of gas and dust in the southern Milky Way. The field of view is approximately 2.8 degrees across.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1113c/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1113c
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- NGC 3582
- Credits
- ESO and Digitized Sky Survey 2.Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin
- Release Date
- 2011-04-13T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1113c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years to Gum 38a from: http://www.jstor.org/stable/info/10.1086/657974
- 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
- 168.050128, -61.273521
- Reference Dimension
- 9878.0, 10609.0
- Reference Pixel
- 5286.04970594, 5297.65859955
- Scale
- -0.00027974031, 0.00027974031
- Rotation
- -3.03699314860
- 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
- eso1113c
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1113c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2011-04-07T10:52:19+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
