The star formation region NGC 6559
eso_eso1320a May 2nd, 2013
Credit: ESO/U.G. Jørgensen
The Danish 1.54-metre telescope located at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has captured a striking image of NGC 6559, an object that showcases the anarchy that reigns when stars form inside an interstellar cloud. This region of sky includes glowing red clouds of mostly hydrogen gas, blue regions where starlight is being reflected from tiny particles of dust and also dark regions where the dust is thick and opaque.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1320a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
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- ID
- eso1320a
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- NGC 6559
- Credits
- ESO/U.G. Jørgensen
- Release Date
- 2013-05-02T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1320a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Danish 1.54-metre telescope, Danish 1.54-metre telescope, Danish 1.54-metre telescope, Danish 1.54-metre telescope
- Instrument
- DFOSC, DFOSC, DFOSC, DFOSC
- Color Assignment
- Red, Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- H-alpha, R, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 272.500101, -24.000082
- Reference Dimension
- 2014.0, 1940.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1517.39521594, 105.901356699
- Scale
- -0.00011032248, 0.00011032248
- Rotation
- 179.55572322047
- 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
- eso1320a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1320a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2013-02-14T13:49:56+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
