The sky around the Saturn Nebula
eso_eso1731e September 27th, 2017
Credit: ESO, Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
This image from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 shows the sky around the bright planetary nebula NGC 7009, often called the Saturn Nebula on account of its curious shape. The nebula appears as a bright blue disc at the centre of the picture and many faint galaxies can also be seen in this picture.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1731e/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1731e
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.3
- Subject Name
- NGC 7009, Saturn Nebula
- Credits
- ESO, Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
- Release Date
- 2017-09-27T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1731e/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Instrument
- None, None, None, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, I, R, R
- Central Wavelength
- 797.5, 797.5, 660, 660
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 316.045823855, -11.3598782647
- Reference Dimension
- 11836.0, 10432.0
- Reference Pixel
- 5918.0, 5216.0
- Scale
- -0.000280134758609, 0.000280134758609
- Rotation
- -0.10000000000000003
- 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
- eso1731e
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1731e.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2017-09-22T11:40:50+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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