Wide-field view of the sky around the bright star cluster NGC 3532
eso_eso1439c November 26th, 2014
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
This wide-field view of the sky around the cluster NGC 3532 was created from photographic material forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The cluster itself is at the centre of the picture and the bright star to its lower left is x Carinae — a very brilliant yellow hypergiant star that is about five times further from Earth than the cluster itself. This star is one of the most distant that can be seen with the naked eye.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1439c/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
View Options
Download Options
Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- eso1439c
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.4.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 3532
- Credits
- ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
- Release Date
- 2014-11-26T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1439c/
- 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
- Green, Orange, Cyan
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Infrared
- Bandpass
- V, R, I
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 166.279309412, -58.7686806657
- Reference Dimension
- 5737.0, 6615.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2868.0, 3307.0
- Scale
- -0.000279958650994, 0.000279958650994
- Rotation
- 3.7800000000000011
- 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
- eso1439c
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1439c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2014-07-11T14:08:54+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
