Wide-field view of the sky around the red giant star L2 Puppis
eso_eso1523d June 10th, 2015
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2
This image shows the region of sky in the southern constellation of Puppis surrounding the red giant star L2 Puppis. This rich area of the Milky Way includes glowing red clouds of hydrogen as well as some dusty clouds known as cometary globules. This picture was assembled from images in the Digitized Sky Survey 2.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1523d/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1523d
- Subject Category
- B.3.2.1
- Subject Name
- L2 Puppis
- Credits
- ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Release Date
- 2015-06-10T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1523d/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 108.386421989, -44.6408937863
- Reference Dimension
- 9984.0, 9379.0
- Reference Pixel
- 4992.0, 4689.5
- Scale
- -0.000280432100959, 0.000280432100959
- Rotation
- 2.0000000000000004
- 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
- eso1523d
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1523d.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2015-05-29T12:27:38+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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