The mouthpiece of the Pipe Nebula
eso_eso1233a August 15th, 2012
Credit: ESO
This picture shows Barnard 59, part of a vast dark cloud of interstellar dust called the Pipe Nebula. This new and very detailed image of what is known as a dark nebula was captured by the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory. This image is so large that it is strongly recommended to use the zoomable version to appreciate it fully.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1233a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1233a
- Subject Category
- B.4.2.3
- Subject Name
- Barnard 59, Nebula, Pipe Nebula
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2012-08-15T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1233a/
- 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
- Instrument
- WFI, WFI, WFI
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 257.820126, -27.370073
- Reference Dimension
- 4000.0, 3742.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2396.23838448, 2129.19613968
- Scale
- -0.00026194175, 0.00026194175
- Rotation
- -0.02299072134
- 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
- eso1233a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1233a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2012-07-13T11:38:58+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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