Wide-field view of the sky around the dark nebula LDN 483

eso_eso1501c January 7th, 2015

Credit: ESO and Digitized Sky Survey 2

This visible-light wide-field image of the region around the dark nebula LDN 483 was created from photographs forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. LDN 483 appears at the centre.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1501c/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: LDN 483
Subject - Milky Way: Nebula > Appearance > Dark > Molecular Cloud

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 18h 17m 35.4s; DEC = -4° 39’ 45.0”
Orientation: North is up
Field of View: 3.0 x 3.0 degrees
Constellation: Serpens

Color Mapping

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

ID: eso1501c
Subject Category: B.4.2.3.1
Subject Name: LDN 483
Credits: ESO and Digitized Sky Survey 2

Release Date: 2015-01-07T12:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1501c/

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, Orange, Cyan

Band: Infrared, Optical, Optical
Bandpass: I, R, B
Central Wavelength

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Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 274.397475545, -4.66249110839
Reference Dimension: 10661.0, 10682.0

Reference Pixel: 5330.0, 5341.0
Scale: -0.000280018148127, 0.000280018148127
Rotation: 0.01999999999999998
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

Postal Code: D-85748
Country: Germany
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Publisher: European Southern Observatory
Publisher ID: eso
Resource ID: eso1501c

Resource URL: https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1501c.tif
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Metadata Date: 2014-09-26T11:22:01+02:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

Detailed color mapping information coming soon...

There is no distance meta data in this image.