Wide-field view of the sky around the Pencil Nebula
eso_eso1236c September 12th, 2012
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin.
This image of the region of sky around the Pencil Nebula shows a spectacular celestial landscape featuring the blue filaments of the Vela supernova remnant, the red glow of clouds of hydrogen and countless stars. It is a colour composite made from exposures from the Digitized Sky Survey 2.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1236c/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1236c
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.4
- Subject Name
- Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS 2), NGC 2736, Pencil Nebula, Vela SNR
- Credits
- ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin.
- Release Date
- 2012-09-12T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1236c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Instrument
- None, None
- Color Assignment
- Orange, Cyan
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- R, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 135.050085, -45.950068
- Reference Dimension
- 14710.0, 9825.0
- Reference Pixel
- 7283.59152451, 3591.48131007
- Scale
- -0.00028031613, 0.00028031613
- Rotation
- 93.73257793805
- 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
- eso1236c
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1236c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2012-09-05T17:11:05+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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