The bright star Alpha Centauri and its surroundings
eso_eso1241e October 16th, 2012
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
This wide-field view of the sky around the bright star Alpha Centauri was created from photographic images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The star appears so big just because of the scattering of light by the telescope's optics as well as in the photographic emulsion. Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to the Solar System.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1241e/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1241e
- Subject Category
- B.3
- Subject Name
- Alpha Centauri, Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS 2)
- Credits
- ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
- Release Date
- 2012-10-16T23:50:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1241e/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Instrument
- None, None, None, None, None
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Red, Red, Green, Green
- Band
- Optical, Infrared, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- B, I, R, R, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 219.901075, -60.835498
- Reference Dimension
- 10675.0, 10695.0
- Reference Pixel
- 5338.75853035, 5348.82850545
- Scale
- -0.00027981716, 0.00027981716
- Rotation
- 0.54065725469
- 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
- None
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso1241e
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1241e.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2012-10-08T15:27:24+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
