The field around yellow hypergiant star HR 5171

Eso_eso1409a_1024

eso_eso1409a March 12th, 2014

Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2

HR 5171, the brightest star just below the centre of this wide-field image, is a yellow hypergiant, a very rare type of stars with only a dozen known in our galaxy. Its size is over 1300 times that of the Sun — one of the ten largest stars found so far. Observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer have shown that it is actually a double star, with the companion in contact with the main star.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1409a/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
HR 5171
Subject - Milky Way
Star > Grouping > Binary
Eso_eso1409a_128
 

Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 13h 47m 10.9s
DEC = -62° 35’ 23.2”
Orientation
North is 2.6° CW
Field of View
2.1 x 1.5 degrees
Constellation
Centaurus

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Red DSS2 (None) Infrared (I) -
Yellow DSS2 (None) Optical (R) -
Cyan DSS2 (None) Optical (B) -
Eso_eso1409a_1280
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ID
eso1409a
Subject Category
B.3.6.1  
Subject Name
HR 5171
Credits
ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2
Release Date
2014-03-12T12:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1409a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
Instrument
None, None, None
Color Assignment
Red, Yellow, Cyan
Band
Infrared, Optical, Optical
Bandpass
I, R, B
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
206.795465, -62.589787
Reference Dimension
7412.0, 5484.0
Reference Pixel
3724.10130981, 2740.88576006
Scale
-0.00027979355, 0.00027979355
Rotation
-2.62258772746
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
European Southern Observatory
URL
http://www.eso.org/
Name
Email
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
eso1409a
Metadata Date
2014-03-06T14:13:49+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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