The planetary nebula IC 4406 seen with MUSE and the AOF
eso_eso1724a August 2nd, 2017
Credit: ESO/J. Richard (CRAL)
The coupling of the AOF with MUSE gives access to both greater sharpness and a wide dynamic range when observing celestial objects like planetary nebulae. These new observations of IC 4406 revealed shells that have never been seen before, along with the already familiar dark dust structures in the nebula that gave it the popular name the Retina Nebula. This image shows a small fraction of the total data collected by the MUSE using the AOF system and demonstrates the increased abilities of the new AOF equipped MUSE instrument.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1724a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1724a
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.3
- Subject Name
- IC 4406
- Credits
- ESO/J. Richard (CRAL)
- Release Date
- 2017-08-02T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1724a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- MUSE, MUSE, MUSE, MUSE, MUSE
- Color Assignment
- Red, Orange, Green, Cyan, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- SII, NII, H-alpha, OI, OIII
- Central Wavelength
- 673, 658, 656, 630, 500
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 215.609256123, -44.1508141536
- Reference Dimension
- 836.0, 840.0
- Reference Pixel
- 418.0, 420.0
- Scale
- -2.76670966924e-05, 2.76670966924e-05
- Rotation
- 44.399999999999977
- 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
- eso1724a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1724a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2017-07-28T11:37:14+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
