Wide-field view of the sky around the Leo Triplet of galaxies
eso_eso1126c July 27th, 2011
Credit: ESO and Digitized Sky Survey 2
This visible-light wide-field image of the region around the Leo Triplet of galaxies was created from photographs taken through blue and red filters and forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The galaxies appear to the lower right of centre. The bright star at the upper right is the naked eye star Theta Leonis. The field of view is approximately 4.4 degrees across.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1126c/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1126c
- Subject Category
- C.5.5.2
- Subject Name
- Leo Triplet
- Credits
- ESO and Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Release Date
- 2011-07-27T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1126c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Instrument
- None, None, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- R, Pseudo green (B+R), B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 170.456732432, 13.9772929076
- Reference Dimension
- 1280.0, 1178.0
- Reference Pixel
- 698.0, 571.0
- Scale
- -0.00352658794863, 0.00352658794863
- Rotation
- 8.7
- 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
- eso1126c
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1126c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-02-09T19:47:15+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
