Wide-field view of the sky around a giant space blob
eso_eso1130c August 17th, 2011
Credit: ESO and Digitized Sky Survey 2
This visible-light wide-field image of the region around the giant Lyman-alpha blob LAB1 was created from photographs taken through blue and red filters and forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The blob itself lies at the centre of the image but, despite being huge and very luminous, it is so distant that it is too faint to be seen clearly on this picture. The field of view is approximately 2.9 degrees across.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1130c/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1130c
- Subject Category
- D.6.1.2
- Subject Name
- LAB-1
- Credits
- ESO and Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Release Date
- 2011-08-17T19:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1130c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Instrument
- None, None, None, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Orange, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, R, Pseudogreen (B+R), B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 334.356847826, 0.21450156018
- Reference Dimension
- 10669.0, 10688.0
- Reference Pixel
- 5334.0, 5344.0
- Scale
- -0.000280207596068, 0.000280207596068
- Rotation
- 0.080000000000000043
- 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
- eso1130c
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1130c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2011-07-29T14:20:21+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
