Wide-field view of the star cluster NGC 6520 and the dark cloud Barnard 86
eso_eso1307c February 13th, 2013
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
This wide-field view shows the very rich star fields of the Large Sagittarius Star Cloud and the cluster NGC 6520 and the neighbouring dark cloud Barnard 86. It was created from images from the Digitized Sky Survey 2.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1307c/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1307c
- Subject Category
- B.4.2.3.2 B.3.6.4.1
- Subject Name
- Barnard 86, NGC 6520
- Credits
- ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
- Release Date
- 2013-02-13T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1307c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Instrument
- None
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 270.742213, -27.868091
- Reference Dimension
- 7051.0, 7091.0
- Reference Pixel
- 3904.30732781, 3646.58472344
- Scale
- -0.00027977061, 0.00027977061
- Rotation
- 0.05857290704
- 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
- eso1307c
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1307c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2013-01-07T14:05:54+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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