Wide-field view of the sky around the young star HL Tauri

eso_eso1436g November 6th, 2014

Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2

This image shows the region in which HL Tauri is situated. HL Tauri is part of one of the closest star-forming regions to Earth and there are many young stars, as well as clouds of dust, in its vicinity. This picture was created from images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1436g/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, None, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: HL Tauri
Subject - Milky Way: Star > Circumstellar Material > Disk > Protoplanetary

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 4h 32m 9.9s; DEC = 18° 16’ 19.3”
Orientation: North is 0.4° CCW
Field of View: 2.1 x 2.2 degrees
Constellation: Taurus

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
DSS2 (None)	Infrared (I)	-
DSS2 (None)	Optical (R)	-
DSS2 (None)	Optical (E-emulsion)	-
DSS2 (None)	Optical (O-emulsion)	-
DSS2 (None)	Optical (B)	-

ID: eso1436g
Subject Category: B.3.7.2.1
Subject Name: HL Tauri
Credits: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2

Release Date: 2014-11-06T13:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1436g/

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: Red, Orange, Yellow, Cyan, Blue

Band: Infrared, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
Bandpass: I, R, E-emulsion, O-emulsion, B
Central Wavelength

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Integration Time
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Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 68.0412256293, 18.2720333629
Reference Dimension: 7372.0, 7920.0

Reference Pixel: 3686.0, 3960.0
Scale: -0.000279747861966, 0.000279747861966
Rotation: 0.35999999999999927
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
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Notes

Creator (Curator): European Southern Observatory
URL: http://www.eso.org/
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Email

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: eso1436g

Resource URL: https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1436g.tif
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Metadata Date: 2014-10-31T13:13:42+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

Detailed color mapping information coming soon...

There is no distance meta data in this image.