The Carina Nebula imaged by the VLT Survey Telescope
eso_eso1250a December 6th, 2012
Credit: ESO. Acknowledgement: VPHAS+ Consortium/Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit
The spectacular star-forming Carina Nebula has been captured in great detail by the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory. This picture was taken with the help of Sebastián Piñera, President of Chile, during his visit to the observatory on 5 June 2012 and released on the occasion of the new telescope’s inauguration in Naples on 6 December 2012.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1250a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1250a
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- Carina Nebula
- Credits
- ESO. Acknowledgement: VPHAS+ Consortium/Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit
- Release Date
- 2012-12-06T16:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1250a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- VLT Survey Telescope, VLT Survey Telescope, VLT Survey Telescope, VLT Survey Telescope
- Instrument
- OmegaCAM, OmegaCAM, OmegaCAM, OmegaCAM
- Color Assignment
- Red, Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- H-alpha, r, g, B
- Central Wavelength
- 659, 625, 480, 440
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- FK5
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 161.27375, -59.863237
- Reference Dimension
- 17383.0, 18656.0
- Reference Pixel
- 8776.0, 9365.0
- Scale
- -5.92696311345e-05, -5.92696311345e-05
- Rotation
- -0.010519049934473
- 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
- eso1250a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1250a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2012-10-02T15:32:03+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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