Wide Field Imager view of a Milky Way look-alike, NGC 6744
eso_eso1118a June 1st, 2011
Credit: ESO
This picture of the nearby galaxy NGC 6744 was taken with the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at La Silla. The large spiral galaxy is similar to the Milky Way, making this image look like a picture postcard of our own galaxy sent from extragalactic space. The picture was created from exposures taken through four different filters that passed blue, yellow-green, red light, and the glow coming from hydrogen gas. These are shown in this picture as blue, green, orange and red, respectively.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1118a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1118a
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 6744
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2011-06-01T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1118a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope
- Instrument
- WFI, WFI, WFI, WFI
- Color Assignment
- Red, Orange, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- H-alpha, 665/12, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 287.442454, -63.858
- Reference Dimension
- 5312.0, 4472.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2478.3942834, 2244.28841716
- Scale
- -6.611697e-05, 6.611697e-05
- Rotation
- -90.00778937253
- 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
- eso1118a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1118a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2011-05-26T14:10:28+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
